THE PLAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 5

THE PLAGUE.

4 MANY MORE VICTIMS. Uf Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Ree. February 7, 9.30 p.m.)

Peking, February 7. A thousand deaths from plague havo occurred at Tsitsihor. ' Ten members of tho Itussian Medical Corps were stricken at Harbin yesterday. . Japanese officials aro leaving for China to mako investigations regarding tho outbreak. The Chinese Government havo granted .£IOO,OOO for the purpose of fighting tho epidemic. - Professor Broquc, of I lie . Pasteur Institute, is going to tho infccteil area. Tho Cjovernor of South Australia, Admiral Sir Day Bosawiuet. spent four or ftvo years in China. His Excellency stated a few days ngo that pneumonia plaguo did not manifest itself among either natives or Europeans at the time of the three years' siege of the Taku forts, at which timo tho Governor was n midshipman. Ilis observations in China we re that tho disease attacked peoplo 'who did not wear shoes or stockings much moro tliau it attacked Europeans wlio did. Tho plague was more disastrous in that the people appeared to hrcatho it in tho air. Yersin serum, which had l>oon successfully used in tho treatment of bubonic plague, was of no avail with resuect to tho pneumonic form. The cities of China were eo densely populated and so filthy in parts that any disease must necessarily havo disastrous result's. . ' When this plaguo occurred at Bombay about. 400 peoplo died daily. Fleas from rats'-were the agents in. spreading tho disease. A body with sores upon it was particularly susceptible to tho inoculation of the germ.