TY  - JOUR
T1  - INfection from books.
Y1  - 1899/11/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450710056016
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1174
EP  - 1174
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 19
N2  - The State Board of Health of Michigan has, it is reported, sent a communication to the New York Board of Health, that twenty clerks employed on some volumes of records had died of consumption, and that on examination by a bacteriologist, the books were found full of tubercle bacilli. It is thought they became infected by a former clerk who had the habit of moistening his thumb with saliva in turning the pages. As first stated in the newspapers, this occurred in Michigan, but we have been informed that it really occurred in Germany. There is nothing remarkable in the fact that a set of books that had been coughed over by a succession of twenty consumptive clerks should contain tubercle bacilli, and decidedly need sterilization, but the story is an interesting one though too incomplete and indefinite. It ought to be given with a thorough medical report of all
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450710056016
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450710056016
ER  -