. The Journal of hygiene . s, since the Ankylostomalarvae can only develope on wet ground. It appears that affectionssimilar to or identical with the coolies water-itch in Assam also occurelsewhere in tropical countries, though they may of course be due toother causes. We have already given an account of the very troublesome skin-eruptions which have been associated with the prevalence of ankylosto-miasis among the miners at Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, and which hadcome to be known as New Sump bunches, the New Sump or Engineshaft at Dolcoath being the one in which the men were far most fre-quen
. The Journal of hygiene . s, since the Ankylostomalarvae can only develope on wet ground. It appears that affectionssimilar to or identical with the coolies water-itch in Assam also occurelsewhere in tropical countries, though they may of course be due toother causes. We have already given an account of the very troublesome skin-eruptions which have been associated with the prevalence of ankylosto-miasis among the miners at Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, and which hadcome to be known as New Sump bunches, the New Sump or Engineshaft at Dolcoath being the one in which the men were far most fre-quently affected by both anaemia and the skin eruptions. The eruptionsdid not specially atfect the feet of the miners, and were usually on otherparts of the body; but the miners wear thick boots, and often workstripped to the waist on account of the heat, or very lightly clad. They 1 Arch. Italiennes de Biologie, Vol. 37, p. 269, 1902. 2 Brit. Med. Joum. 1902, Vol. 1, p. 190. JOURNAL OF HYGIENE, VOL. IV. NO. 1 PLATE IX <§^. A severe case of bunches on the arm of a Cornish miner. See pp. A. E. Boycott and J. S. Haldane 89 are thus more exposed to mud and dirt on other parts of the body thanon the feet. Plate IX is from a photograph of a bad case of bunches ;we are indebted for it to Dr Blackwood of Camborne. The patient was aDoleoath miner who had come to him for treatment. The men describedintense itching, followed by papular, vesicular, and pustular eruptions,just as in the case of water-itch. Skin symptoms have not, so far as we know, been described inconnection with outbreaks of ankylostomiasis in mines made recently by one of us among medical men engaged indealing with ankylostomiasis in the Westphalian mines failed to elicitany information as to skin eruptions specially associated with ankylo-stomiasis. Some of the miners referred, it is true, to skin eruptions dueto their work underground, but there was no evidence to connect thesewith ankylostomiasis.
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