"NEW TERROR TO LIFE."
A disease originating from infection from rats, stated to be new to Great Britain, was described by the coroner at a London inquest as "adding a new terror to life." The inquest was on a council employee who died from a form of jaundice due to infection from rats. Dr. William Barnard, consulting pathologist to the London County Council, said that it was a classical case of Weil's disease which was new to Great Britain, but had been known in Japan and India. It was caused by an organism parasitic to the rat —it was in the rat's kidney. The disease had been contracted in the canals in Holland by people when bathing, and a bargee contracted it in the River Thames. It was believed that, apart from cuts, the germ could enter the nostrils and mouth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 50, 28 February 1935, Page 5
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