Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

作者：M. W. G. · 发表于：Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 年份：1950 · DOI：10.1136/oem.7.2.87-a · 被引用次数：74 · 研究领域：Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management、Chemical Safety and Risk Management

This valuable report is the culmination of a series of investigations carried on at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and must of necessity be the basis of any future research on this subject.The authors have checked their many bacteriological findings by means of statistical methods and have thereby made factual a subject which might otherwise have become unwieldy.Not least among the findings was the importance of Staphylococcus aureus in industrial sepsis and the fact that this organism was, in over 60% of cases, derived from the patient's own skin.On the other hand strepto- coccal infections seemed to be the result ofcross-infection, possibly due to faulty dressing technique.Coliform organisms were found in every sample of oil emulsion and in 25 % of oils examined and might be the source of contamination of industrial wounds with this group of organisms.From examinations of the wounding agent and its accessories, machine tools, oils, and oil emulsions, it did not seem likely that staphylococci in fresh wounds were often derived from these agents.