(From the Spectator Imprimis, or firstly, the mere sport of it, which lasted ten days, drew om most markedly out of their melancholy. I'd defy sorrowful Job himself to lament or search mile bes rooting rate from rick. Secundo, or secondly, the vebement act snd operation of this chase of war opened their skins to generous trapspiration,.... Thirdly, when we came to burn the bodies of the rats, I sprinkled sulphur on the maggots, wheroby the onlookers were as handsomely suffamigeted, Yet more, we cleansed, limed, snd burned out a hundred foul poke-holes, sinks, slews and corners of covisited filth io and about the houses of the village." Mr. Kipling's Doctor of Medicine 'y could hardly preach from a text more appro-|* priate to the occasion. It is unforlunately beyond doubt that for the firet time in two hundred and Sfty years we ba the baculas of plague once more with us in England, It is also beyond doubt that the area of infection is spreading.
Something must be done to check it if possible, and it is clear that whatever is done must be ergal on a scale far larger than anything have hitherto undertaken. have to face not merely a local scare, but national need of an importance hardly to be ox:
"The Times" of December 22 published an extremely able and inter-coating article from its pecial correspondent on the spread of plague among the rats of East Anglia. In it w farnished with more than one fact whic! has not hitherto been made public, or which has not been brought into relation with other known facts, In the first place, it is practically certain that the outbreak of pneamonic plague at Freston last September is not the first, but that we have bad the plague with us among ata and human beings for four years,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.