Extracts from the annual report of the medical officer of the local government board for 1891-92. On manure nuisances.

  • Thorne, R. Thorne.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Extracts from the annual report of the medical officer of the local government board for 1891-92. On manure nuisances. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1C On tho Manufac- ture of Rag Flock, &c.; by Dr. Parsons. “ I strongly suspect that tho loss cost of disinfecting by ‘ sulphurous ‘ acid gas with rags well scattered upon racks,” is a greater objection than any damage to tho rags when disinfected by steam, as I understand that it is done in various portB of Europe for 60 to 75 cents per ton. I am not well satisfied that it is done efficiently in all caBes. In fact the recent development of small-pox at the Holyoke mills in this country is said to have come from imported rags marked ‘ disinfected ’ on the bale. As no rags aro so marked when they are disinfected here, and as they are so marked by some of the inspectors of disinfection in Europe, I infer that the rags were inefficiently disinfected before shipment.” LONDON : Printed by Etbb and Spottiswoodb, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. [357.—500.—5/87.]