The plague at Hailar was suppressed towards the middle of December, but at the beginning ut January some fresh cases of pul-mon ary plague were reported at Jalainor, where is situated a large nearly two months ago against the disease, the epidemic has not Yet reached serious dimensions, and it is hoped that with a return of warmer weather and the stoppage of trains that city will not receive new infections "from the east. A serious feature lies in the fact that three cases have actually been found as coming from Changchun. thus entailing precautions against the south-coming passengers as well as those from the west. Besides our Anti-plague Hospital, which can accommodate over 100 patients. we have 40 rail-Way cars ready for the housing of contacts. ing to the overcrowded state of Harbin. both railway coal mine owned by Skidelsky.|area and Chinese city, each pati-This mine employs about 2,500 and) one may infect. as many as 30-40 1,000 Chinese miners with an persons living in the same room. output of 140,000 ponds dai jHence the necessity of even more pounds go to the pond).
With the cars than we have at present. dependant population included, the The returns for deaths from total number of persons living in plague from the beginning of the that town is about 7,000. epidemi¢ to the end of January Most of the people, and the miners, live in semi-underground huts, in order to avoid the severe Manchuli 2 51 36 cold present in that region. Hence, Jalainor 232 when lung plague appeared among Tsitsihar city 104 these people, it spread rapidly, one Other places (including Harbin) 30 sick person often infecting 40 others at one time. In spite of the Total 443 humane work of the doctors (Rus-possible precaution has sian and Chinese) the disease con-limit the spread of tinued to spread. and up to the ie, and all officials from end' of January 232 deaths had Governor-General Chang—Tso-lin been recorded, downwards have shown an anxiety Jalainor is only 27 versts (13 miles) to help. The Taoyin of Harbin has east of Manchuli Station, and so, given me invaluable assistance. when the train service was stop-while the Russian officials and ped, the miners flocked to the lat-doctors of the railway have coter and took the train drom~ there operated in a most worthy way to Harbin and the south. Tsitsihar We have distributed seve! cor Pukuei, capital of Heilungkiang thousand doses of plague vaccine Province, was also attacked, the }|manufactured in our laboratory in first case being reported on Jan-Harbin from the bacillus cultivate uary 18. From that date to the/ed from Hailar cases for distribu-end of January, 104 cases were tion. recorded in that city.
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The first case found in Harbin traced to a miner from Jalainor, was recorded on January 22 and who died within 21 hours after
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