have been spent in expensive disinfect tants and apparently with no result, for the Plague constantly reappears in the same old" places. Elsewhere, especially in the Hyderabad Province, no disinfectauta are used. When Plague breaks out in a town or village it is at once evacuated, the floors of infected houses are scraped up to the depths of two inches and the earth is burnt in kilns, When this has been thoroughly and systematically done the inhabitants are allowed to return and itis claimed that, during the last 18 months that this system has been in force, there has been no ease of recrudescence in a village thus disinfected. In the matter of expense the fire system possesses great advantages, since it costs practically nothing. What the Commission should settle, once for all, is whether the microbe found in the earth floors of infected houses is really the Plague microbe or not. When first found in the earth it is slightly different from the re~ cognised Plague breillus, but when passed through the living body of an animal, such ay a rabbit, it develops into real Blague bacillus and brings on the disease itself in all its recognised forms. The real nature of this earth microbe is the clue to the origin and treatment of the disease, Secunderabad, 18th March,
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