Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Fatalities at Bundaberg, together with appendices / Royal Commission of Inquiry into Fatalities at Bundaberg

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Royal Commission of Inquiry into Fatalities at Bundaberg
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REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO FATALITIES AT BUNDABERG, 1
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS. 3
APPENDICES. 33
APPENDIX 1. 35
APPENDIX 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE ROOM IN WHICH INJECTIONS WERE PERFORMED BY DR. THOMSON AND WHERE EXPERIMENTS ON AIR CONTAMINATION WERE CARRIED OUT BY THE COMMISSION. 36
APPENDIX 3. DEMONSTRATION BY DR. E. G. THOMSON OF THE METHODS USED BY HIM IN WITHDRAWING TOXIN-ANTITOXIN MIXTURE FROM RUBBER-CAPPED BOTTLES. 40
APPENDIX 4. ATR CONTAMINATION EXPERIMENTS CARRIED OUT AT BUNDABERG. 43
APPENDIX 5. EXAMINATION OF THE RECORD SYRINGE AND NEEDLES USED BY DR. E. G. THOMSON AT BUNDABERG. 46
APPENDIX 6, EXAMINATION OF THE BOILED RAIN-WATER USED BY DR. E. G. THOMSON ON THE 27TH JANUARY, 1928. 47
APPENDIX 7. THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH DR. E. G. THOMSON’S BOTTLE OF TOXINANTITOXIN MIXTURE WAS STORED. 48
APPENDIX 8. THE TREATMENT OF THE CASES, AND TEMPERATURE CHARTS FROM THE BUNDABERG GENERAL HOSPITAL. 49
Temperature Charts Cases 3,4,5 50
Temperature Chart Case 6 51
Temperature Chart Case 7 52
Temperature Charts Cases 12.14,15 53
Temperature Chart Case 13 54
Temperature Charts Cases 16,18,20 55
Temperature Chart Case 17 56
Temperature Chart Case 21 57
APPENDIX 9. DETAILED NARRATIVE OF EVENTS IN RELATION TO THE REQUEST OF THE MAYOR OF BUNDABERG FOR A PATHOLOGIST. 58
APPENDIX 10. DR. RICHARDS REPORTS ON THE AUTOPSY OF M.BR. 59
APPENDIX 11. POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF THE TISSUES RETAINED FROM THE AUTOPSIES AT BUNDABERG. 61
APPENDIX 12. ANALYSIS OF ORGANS FOR HEAVY METALS. 74
APPENDIX 13. THE PREPARATION OF BATCH 86—DIPHTHERIA TOXIN-ANTITOXIN MIXTURE. 75
APPENDIX 14. DISPOSAL OF BATCH 86. 78
APPENDIX 15. WARNING NOTICE AND COVERING MEMORANDUM ADDRESSED TO DR. J. S. C. ELKINGTON, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF TROPICAL HYGIENE, BRISBANE, FROM DR. F. G. MORGAN. DIRECTOR OF LABORATORIES DIVISION. 79
APPENDIX 16. EXAMINATION OF UNOPENED BOTTLES OF BATCH 86 AND OF OTHER BATCHES WITHOUT ANTISEPTIC. 80
APPENDIX 17. RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION OF PARTLY USED RUBBER-CAPPED BOTTLES OF BATCH 86, WITH THEIR PREVIOUS HISTORY. 82
APPENDIX 18. EXAMINATION OF THE REMAINDER OF THE TOXIN-ANTITOXIN MIXTURE IN THE BOTTLE OF BATCH 86 FROM WHICH DR. THOMSON MADE HIS INJECTIONS ON THE 17TH, 20TH, 21ST, 24TH AND 27TH JANUARY. 87
APPENDIX 19. EXAMINATION OF THE BUNDABERG BOTTLE OF TOXIN-ANTITOXIN FOR IODINE. 92
APPENDIX 20. ON THE POSSIBILITY OF TETANUS BEING THE CAUSE OF THE FATALITIES. 93
APPENDIX 21. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ORGANISMS OTHER THAN STAPHYLOCOCCI WERE PRESENT IN THE BUNDABERG BOTTLE OF TOXIN-ANTITOXIN MIXTURE, WHICH HAD DIED OUT OR BEEN DESTROYED BY PROTEOLYTIC ACTIVITY OF THE STAPHYLOCOCCI ? 95
APPENDIX 22. REPORT OF SEROLOGICAL AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS OF STAPHYLOCOCCI ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUNDABERG INVESTIGATION. 96
APPENDIX 23. THE PATHOGENICITY OF THE BUNDABERG STAPHYLOCOCCUS TO LABORATORY ANIMALS. 98
APPENDIX 24. PRODUCTION OF A SKIN-REACTING TOXIN FROM THE BUNDABERG STAPHYLOCOCCUS. 101
APPENDIX 25. THE EFFECT OF THE BUNDABERG STAPHYLOCOCCUS ON TOXIN AND ANTITOXIN SEPARATELY. 103
APPENDIX 26. ON THE CULTIVATION OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS IN TOXIN-ANTITOXIN, ON THE POSSIBILITY OF DISSOCIATION OF TOXIN BY THIS METHOD, AND ON THE PATHOGENICITY OF STAPHYLOCOCCI GROWN IN THIS MEDIUM. 108
APPENDIX 27. ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF TURBIDITY IN TOXIN-ANTITOXIN MIXTURE IN RELATION TO THE NUMBER OF STAPHYLOCOCCI PRESENT IN DR. THOMSON’S BOTTLE ON 27TH JANUARY, 1928. 118
APPENDIX 28. INVESTIGATION OF CONTENT OF DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN IN THE SERA OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE INJECTION OF TOXIN-ANTITOXIN MIXTURE ON 27TH JANUARY AT BUNDABERG. 120
APPENDIX 29. THE EFFECT OF THE SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION OF DIPHTHERIA TOXIN TOGETHER WITH THE BUNDABERG STAPHYLOCOCCUS. 123
APPENDIX 30. ON GENERALIZED STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTION. 124
APPENDIX 31. DEFINITION OF SOME TECHNICAL TERMS USED. 129

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