THE BLACK DEATH
PNEUMONIC PLAGUE. AT LOS ANGELAS. NEW YORK. Nov. 1. A Los Angeles despatch says: The black death which swept London in the fifteenth century is believed to have broken .out here. A Mexican woman died recently, apparently front pneumonia, and seventeen attendedher funeral. Twelve ox them ere now dead, and physicians say that the remainder cannot survive. Three of these never entered the house of the first victim.
The greatest consternation prevails and autopsies were rushed through.
The City Health Officer, reporting on the diagnosis, said: "It is definitely established that the ailment is a pneumonic plague—a very terrible disease in the form of double pneumonia. Both lungs become infected and tho temperature goes to a high mark. Death follows swiftly, generally within four days after the disease first appears. The mortality is very high. We feel that of the seventeen Mexicans the total deaths will be a hundred percent.
"An aimed guard has been placed around the districts in which the victims resided. The dead have been placed in an isolated ward.
■■pneumonic plague is the. same disease which struck London m the 15th century. We do not know how it originated.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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