Nationality. Location.
Russian, Railway area Japanese, Railway and Chinese area 60 Chinese, all Parts of Harbin a District 3,738
Total 4,503
A Scare -or Puacue.
Towards the middle of January of this year, there appeared reports of an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the district' of Linhsien, 100 miles from Taiyuanfu, Shansi. Dr. Watson and other ' doctors proceeded to the spot to investigate, but from spleen puncture, cultural methods and mictoscopicai examination they were satisfied that.|the deaths were not due to plague It is probable that these deaths were accompaniments of influenza in the lungs.
Asi September 11 news came from Ikievakaya, a Siberian station about forty miles west of Man chou lie, saying that two cases (Russian) of bubonic plague had been diagnosed in the neighbourhood, one in the cervical and one in the axillary region, These cases were confirmed by bacteriological diagnosis, and for a time some panic was caused. The strictest measures were taken to prevent the spread of the disease into China. No further cases were reported. end the two might be classed
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