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agriculture, 64, 73, 75, 80, 86, 889, 111,

130, 160, 163
see also pastoralism
Allbutt, T. Clifford, 29, 108
alpaca, 1415, 27, 33, 35, 48, 85, 96, 151
Anderson, Thomas McCall, 689
Angora, 14, 14950
anthrax
in animals, 5, 10, 223, 25, 38, 53, 557,
60, 64, 67, 703, 7980, 84, 868,
111, 114, 11935, 142, 1458,
1515, 16073, 177, 17980, 182
external, 910, 22, 24, 55, 58, 60, 77, 81,
118, 134, 1369, 154
public representations in Bradford,
4162
research in Bradford, 1740
symptoms of, 234, 29, 38, 40, 47, 55,
60, 63, 66, 69, 81
treatment of, 6, 910, 278, 32, 44, 56,
60, 70, 74, 77, 81, 11819, 13342,
154, 159, 163, 1656, 1756, 179
see also Bacillus anthracis; Cumberland
disease; dallack; la maladie de Bradford; milzbrand; murrain; malignant
pustule; splenic fever; splenic apoplexy; woolsorters disease
Anthrax Investigation Board (AIB), 8,
1819, 309, 601, 78, 81, 845, 88,
110, 112, 132, 13940, 1567, 163,
168, 171, 180
Anthrax Prevention Act (1919), 4, 8, 61, 75,
85, 92, 11011, 148, 156, 176, 178
Asquith, H. H., 1002
Australia, 23, 5, 143, 14550, 155, 1628,
177

and international exchange, 1011,

1703, 17981
and the wool trade, 15960, 169
Bacteriological Revolution, 6, 18, 175,
1789
Bacillus anthracis
and causation, 24, 9, 224, 29, 38,
523, 57, 63, 6970, 84, 92, 11315,
118, 124, 131, 145, 152, 162, 178
and compensation, 106
and culturing, 33, 77, 1223, 130,
1323, 142
spores, 25, 345, 74, 93, 11213, 123,
149, 157, 1712, 181
visual properties of, 5, 26, 68
Bell, John Henry
and Continental anthrax research,
12833
and Frederick William Eurich, 302,
37, 89
and William Smith Greenfield, 82, 84,
126
and international exchange, 1523, 155,
1624, 173, 180
and Norwich, 80
and popular press, 528, 61, 99, 110
and press cuttings, 146, 167
and regulation, 945, 101, 111
and research, 1, 5, 810, 12, 1630,
3840, 42, 45, 92, 11720, 169,
1778
and James Burn Russell, 679, 84
and Achille Sclavo, 135, 13843
and J. Lionel Stretton, 789
and woolsorters, 105
Bandi, Ivo, 136

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Bradford and District Trades and Labour

Council, 37, 1025, 11011, 114, 179
Bradford Chamber of Commerce, 17, 31,
37, 78, 1035, 110, 114, 179
Bradford Chronicle, 14, 556
Bradford Daily Telegraph, 9, 13, 424, 478,
50, 525, 61, 94, 109, 141
Bradford Eye and Ear Hospital, 14, 20, 31
Bradford Medico-Chirurgical Society, 14,
18, 202, 27, 389, 456, 48, 50, 53,
68, 111, 1289, 1389, 152, 163
Bradford Observer, 9, 1314, 4150, 537,
61, 78, 86, 95, 100, 104, 10910, 117,
141, 145, 150, 1524, 169
Bradford Royal Infirmary, 14, 20, 23, 25,
31, 137
Bradford Rules, 12, 31, 36, 58, 924,
99100, 102, 104, 114, 129, 176,
1789
Bradford Technical College, 31, 334
Bradford Town Council, 97, 99, 132
Bradford Wool Top and Noil Warehousemens Society, 15, 111
Bradford Woolsorters Society, 15
Brintons Limited, 769, 91, 105, 109
British Medical Association, 35, 76
British Medical Journal, 13, 17, 246, 645,
67, 73, 87, 1078, 1267, 131, 135,
137
Brown Animal Sanatory Institute, 1, 38, 56,
82, 117, 120, 1257, 131, 1756
Brown Lectures, 82, 84, 126
Butterfield, Harris, 24, 4950, 95, 117
Byles, William, 423
Byles, William Pollard, 43, 100

Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act (1886),

80, 170
coroners, 1, 11, 29, 37, 53, 579, 84, 87,
947, 99, 1012, 104, 110, 175, 181
Court of Appeal, 78, 1057
Cozens-Hardy, Herbert, 107
Cumberland disease, 23, 11, 13, 145, 147,
1604, 166, 168, 177, 1801
Cyllin, 34
dallack, 11, 1534, 167, 177, 1801
Dangerous Trades (Anthrax) Committee
(DTC), 1003, 108, 111
Delpine, Sheridan, 878, 11213, 158, 178
Departmental Committee of Inquiry (DCI),
8, 18, 367, 845, 11114, 1559,
165, 167, 1712, 1801
disinfection, 2, 8, 11, 21, 29, 336, 39, 523,
61, 67, 912, 96, 101, 11114, 129,
148, 151, 1559, 16772, 181
see also formaldehyde
Duckering, G. Elmhirst, 36, 92, 11115,
159, 171, 176, 178
Dun, William G., 6870
dust
as cause of disease, 2, 12, 21, 33, 39, 44,
71, 130, 145
in factories, 21, 468, 65, 178
in fleeces, 1516
removal of, 39, 48, 50, 66, 934, 97,
1012, 104, 113

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Campbell and Harrison, 10610
carpet, 9, 64, 767, 89
Chamberland, Charles, 119, 1212
cholera, 2, 20, 31, 86, 124, 130, 176
fowl, 73, 164
Commission on Woolsorters Diseases, 18,
238, 39, 85, 103, 117, 128
compensation, 4, 1011, 5960, 73, 778,
867, 913, 102, 10510, 11415,
1757
Constantinople, 145, 150, 1528

East Anglia, 9, 624, 7982, 89

Eddison, John, 22, 128
Ellis, Sargeant, 47, 74, 151
Ellis, Thomas Mullett, 73, 162, 181
see also Zalma
Ellis, W. H., 24, 445, 128
Employers Liability Act (1880), 102
Eurich, Frederick William, 5
and Anthrax Investigation Board, 317,
601, 78, 81, 139, 156, 168
and Departmental Committee of Investigation, 11114, 157, 167, 171
education, 30
forensic medicine, 37

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and research, 9, 412, 79, 889, 92, 119,
1313, 1423, 1467, 171, 173, 176,
178
and serum therapy, 13941, 179
Factory and Workshop Act (1891), 101
Factory and Workshop Act (1895), 109
Firth, Samuel, 41, 525, 58, 946, 152
formaldehyde, 34, 112
see also disinfection
Frankland, Percy, 128
France, 3, 118, 1201, 126, 12930, 134,
160
Gatheral, George, 145, 151, 1545
glanders, 108, 111, 183
Germany, 3, 122, 134
Gilruth, John Anderson, 6, 147, 1702
Glasgow, 6476, 8990, 141, 160, 167
and anthrax, 6870
and deaths in drug users, 182
and industry, 65, 71, 83
and horsehair, 64, 67
relationship with Bradford, 5, 9, 62, 64,
689, 756, 7980, 147, 165, 180
Glasgow Herald, 715
Goyder, David, 234, 78, 117, 152
Greenfield, William Smith, 1, 26, 38, 56, 82,
84, 87, 96, 117, 119, 1258, 1302,
142
Greenwood, James, 12, 13, 1756
grinders disease, 49, 183
Gunn, John Alexander, 1646, 173

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India, 3, 172, 177

and fertilizers, 11, 165, 1701, 180
and wools, 1, 15, 27, 35, 148, 156,
1589, 169, 180
Independent Labour Party, 14, 102
industrialization, 3, 63, 71, 7980, 85, 148
International Labour Conference, 1556,
159
inquest, 1, 4, 29, 37, 47, 534, 57, 5961,
74, 79, 84, 879, 92, 94104, 10810,
114, 129, 1513, 1756, 178, 181
Jenner Institute for Calf Lymph, 141
Jeyes Sanitary Compounds Company, 345
Jowett, Frederick William, 367, 60, 107
Keighley, 15, 99, 101, 130, 154, 156
Kidderminster, 769, 8992
and anthrax, 76, 137, 141, 163
and compensation, 10, 1056, 109
and industry, 9, 76, 156
and periodical press, 9, 78
relationship with Bradford, 62, 64,
7981, 84
Klebs, Ernst, 26, 117
Klein, E. E., 34, 86, 127, 1301, 171
Koch, Robert, 1225
and anthrax causation, 4, 22, 118, 122,
142
and microbiology, 10, 39, 115, 119, 122
reception in Britain, 22, 38, 115, 11719,
126, 1313, 142, 177
relationship with Louis Pasteur, 122, 125,
130, 143

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Hime, Thomas Whiteside, 97, 103, 129,

131, 162
Home Office (UK), 8, 18, 367, 39, 71, 84,
93, 98, 1035, 110, 156
Home Office (Italy), 134, 142
Home Secretary (UK), 1001, 1034, 108
horsehair, 4, 65, 79, 81, 84
and China, 158
and Glasgow, 9, 64, 67, 70, 73, 75, 132
and Italy, 135, 137
and Russia, 69, 72, 85, 162, 165
House of Lords, 78, 1056, 10810
Hutchinson, J. G., 53, 59, 95
hydrophobia, 46, 734
see also rabies

Lancashire County Asylum, Whittingham,

302
Lancet, 13, 77, 135, 140, 155
Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical
Society, 22, 84, 117, 128
Leeds Mercury, 423, 74, 129
Legge, Thomas Morison
and anthrax in Kidderminster, 78
and Australia, 164
and Dangerous Trades (Anthrax) Committee, 108
and Departmental Committee of
Inquiry, 111, 114, 157
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and Sclavos serum, 10, 11819, 13542,

163, 179
liberalism
and the Bradford press, 14, 434
Lister, Joseph, 123
Liverpool
and anthrax cases, 86
city bacteriologist, 31
and public health, 65, 141
and wool disinfection station, 61, 912,
114, 148, 156, 159, 176
and wool trade, 14, 150
Local Government Board, 15, 63, 823,
956, 127, 141, 153, 162, 178
Lodge, Samuel, Jr, 256, 56, 61, 117
Lodge, Samuel, Sr, 21, 44, 94, 128
Loir, Adrien, 159, 1612, 1646, 173
London, 9, 14, 42, 75
anthrax in, 826, 141
hospitals, 81, 89, 137
medical institutions, 1, 38, 56, 117, 170,
1756
press, 67, 103
and wool, 149

Norris, W. Perrin, 6, 11, 147, 1645, 1678,

1723, 17980
nystagmus, 20, 93, 108, 115
Oliver, Thomas, 29
Otago, 170
Ottoman Empire, 1, 3, 15, 148, 150, 152,
167
see also Turkey
Pasteur, Louis, 11922
and anthrax, 4, 10, 73, 117
and germ theory, 115
and Robert Koch, 123, 125, 143
reception in Britain, 26, 56, 118, 12632,
142, 177, 179
and vaccination, 38, 84, 119, 125, 128,
1346, 1646, 173
Pasteur Institutes, 142
in Australia, 161, 1645
in Paris, 128, 171
pastoralism, 148, 15960, 1678
pastoralists, 2, 11, 161, 164, 169
see also agriculture
Peru, 15, 85, 159
Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 63, 71,
132
Playfair, Lyon, 118
pneumonia, 26, 49, 723, 87, 130, 134
Pouilly-le-Fort, 11922, 125, 128, 164

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maladie de Bradford, la, 13, 90, 173, 177,
malignant pustule, 13, 224, 63, 6870, 72,
74, 82, 84, 88, 1801
meat, 72, 89, 1601, 1678, 171
Medical Officers of Health
Bradford, 2, 31, 49, 95, 97, 101, 103, 117,
129, 131
general, 6
Glasgow, 9, 63, 65, 89
Kidderminster, 141
Levenshulme, 88
milk, 31, 74
milzbrand, 63, 118
Mitchell and Shepherd, 52, 54, 945, 99
Mitchell Brothers, 479, 79, 88, 93
murrain, 28, 161
National Union of Woolsorters, 15, 33, 36,
60, 103, 111
negligence, 87, 95, 99, 102, 104, 109, 114
New Zealand, 3, 6, 1011, 13, 845, 143,
1468, 15960, 16873, 177, 179, 181
North British Daily Mail, 745

rabies, 7, 131, 164

see also hydrophobia
Rhodes, Sutcliffe, 445, 151, 161
Roux, Emile, 119, 1212, 125, 130
Russell, James Burn, 9, 6372, 745, 79,
835, 89, 132, 165
Russia, 66, 69, 72, 85, 147, 162, 165
Salt, Titus, Jr, 45
Salt, Titus, Sr, 15, 149, 180
Saltaire, 14, 101, 110
Sanderson, John Burdon, 82, 1257
Saville, Isaac, 93, 97
Sclavo, Achille, 5, 10, 115, 11819, 1338,
140, 1423, 163
Sclavos serum, 10, 60, 13342, 146, 163,
176, 179

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sheep, 2, 4, 55, 73, 11821, 123, 1267, 134,
149, 1607, 169
Shipley, 14, 434, 1002, 108
Siberian fever, 13, 180
Smith, John McGarvie, 1646, 173
Spear, John, 1, 15, 823, 85, 956, 111, 117,
128, 130, 146, 1536, 162, 167, 178
splenic apoplexy, 13, 712, 180
splenic fever, 13, 17, 224, 52, 63, 73, 88,
128, 145, 162
Stockman, Stewart, 111, 157, 168, 171
Straus, Isidore, 130
Stretton, J. Lionel, 9, 779, 89, 1378
tanners, 70, 135, 137
tanning, 100, 137
telegraph, 173, 181
Thackrah, Charles Turner, 65
Thuiller, Louis, 1212, 125, 127
Tibbits, Edward, 19, 257, 117
Turkey, 1011, 48, 85, 96, 116, 14655,
157, 167, 1723, 177, 179
see also Ottoman Empire
Turvey, Joseph, 779, 10510
typhoid, 2, 74, 134, 176

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companies, 32
and danger, 356, 38, 40, 42, 46, 50, 53,
59, 151, 1567
and disinfection, 21, 346, 52, 55, 96,
11114, 148, 152, 156, 158, 176
germs in, 91, 105
history of trade, 14, 63, 80, 89
and international trade, 34, 37, 40,
14550, 1535, 1589, 1689, 171,
177
laboratory analysis of, 324, 3840, 92
as raw material, 25, 40, 126, 132, 145
regulation of, 934, 10910, 171
woolsorters
working conditions, 2, 20, 27, 32, 389,
45, 478, 58, 67, 789, 93, 1001,
104, 115, 136, 155, 176, 178
see also Bradford Woolsorters Society;
National Union of Woolsorters
woolsorters disease
in animals, 556, 126
and anxiety, 16, 502
cause, 13, 89, 1729, 3840, 63,
689, 84, 126, 1302, 145, 152, 162,
178
cultural representations, 502, 67
and Cumberland disease, 160, 162, 168
incidence of, 31, 64, 82, 176
nomenclature, 23, 1113, 15, 367,
579, 61, 70, 81, 90, 120, 12830,
1757, 1802
prevention, 7, 92, 949, 103
public perceptions of, 412, 4455,
612, 71, 73, 869
and Van mohair, 1515
see also Commission on Woolsorters
Diseases
Woolsorting and Woolcombing Rules Committee, 32
Workmens Compensation Act (1897),
589, 778, 1067
Workmens Compensation Act (1906),
912, 10810

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University College London, 25

vaccine
in Australia, 159, 1646, 173, 179
William Smith Greenfield, 38, 84,
1256, 131
in humans, 142
Louis Pasteur, 10, 11922, 1278, 130,
134, 142, 179
Achille Sclavo, 133, 136
vaccination see vaccine
Van, lake, 10, 1456, 1502, 159
Van mohair, 27, 42, 46, 489, 545, 69, 85,
105, 1507, 159, 180
Viala, Eugne, 121
vivisection, 10, 38, 112, 120, 1256, 132,
Walpole, MA, 5, 64, 180
Whitelegge, Arthur, 101
wool
and Bradford, 2, 67, 9, 14, 85, 102, 176
capital of the world, 1, 183
classification of, 47, 105, 152

Zalma, 734, 162, 181