WORLD ACHIEVEMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 9

WORLD ACHIEVEMENT

A YORKSHIRE DOCTOR. It. is doubtful if many people arc familiar with tlm name of Dr. I l ’. W. Enrich,' of Bradford, but the world is in his debt. Since the time of Moses anthrax has been one of the most dreaded oi all diseases, and it is said that the filth plague of Egypt (murrain) was nothing more than what we should today call anthrax. Wool workers have all along had special reason to he frightened of it—for a worker in a woollen mill or on a. shoe]) farm might any day see a horrid pustule on his hand or arm or face and know that death had come to him. Now l)r. Enrich has learnt all that needs to he known about the way this disease is caused and how to avoid it. His discoveries are a groat triumph. It was naturally supposed till <juitc recently That dirty wool was more dangerous than clean, hut this is not so. Clean wool may hold the anthrax bacillus as surely as any other, and Dr. Enrich had shown wool-workers how to recognise its presence, though openers and sorters are still exposed to dangers if the wool comes from regions where it has not been treated in the way the doctor has found to lie most effective for killing the germ without destroying the properties of the wool. So grateful is the trade to this clever and patient ■ research worker that in 19J7 i( awarded him the Medal of the Textile Institute. —(L.)