ANTHRAX PROBLEM
SOLVED BY EXPERTS IMPORTED GOAT HAIR HOME SECRETARY’S ANNOUNCEMENT (British Official Wirelessl RUGBY, lCth February. The Home Secretary, Sir John Gilmour, stated that experts of his department had solved the anthrax problem, which dread disease it had now been found came from goat hair imported into this country and used in many industries. For a considerable time experts have had an experimental station working on the problem, and tlie solution found would necessitate the Home Secretary asking the industry to send all imported goat hair to a "centre to fie disinfected in order that the risk to workers handling it might be wiped out.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 February 1935, Page 5
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106ANTHRAX PROBLEM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 February 1935, Page 5
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