Conditions in Chefoo The '"'Chefoo Daily News," of the 10th instant, in its Plague Hullo tin," quotes a lengthy report by Dr. Win. Malcolm which includes remarks as to the origin and treatment of bubonic and pneumonic plague and the manner in which to prevent infection.
Dr. Malcolm says that the dis tance from the patient at which droplet and breathing infection carries is supposed to be about three feet, but in the first case discovered on the str, Kishinev, lying at anchor in Chefoo Bay, and from which at least 16 persons are known to have died of plague, he was sure that the patient spread infection to a far greater radius than three feet. He states that during medical inspection he asked that the patient be brought up on deck. The patient proved to be a well-nourished young man, about 22 years of age, who walked up the stairs unaided, but with difficulty, and seemed to (be suffering chiefly from air hunger. He was asked to sit on a box, but seemed so weak, and in such distress, that he could scarcely sit upright. During a paroxysm of laboured breathing, without coughing, he suddenly spat a mouthful of bloody sputum straight ahead of him to a distance of at least 10 ft. In his distress, he seemed quite careless of where he spat. In a very short time he rolled over on the deck and was presently moribund.
Dr. Malcolm's report continues:
No Case Astore Yer.
"While there are many rumours, no certain plague cases have yet been found, so Wu-tao-yin told me last evening, while the Chief-of-police, assures me that a daily house-to-house-inspection is bein, carried out, and he has been ask to report to the Health Officer, at once, all suspects, for the purpose of confirmation in diagnosis. 1 would also request that all foreigners report any suspicious case that comes to notice. No other case has developed on board ship, since the dead bodies were removed. Only four persons are still on Kentucky Islana. All the others (108) have escaped. The eleven coolies who accomplished the cremation, are still in quarantine on the small inland."
The Consular Body, after having considered a report from a conference of seven of the doctors in town (including also two senior members of the China Inland Mission, who were present during the epidemic of 1911) have issued definite instructions, which naturally will cause some inconvenience.
In the case of the man and two women, who were said to have come off the str. Kishinev, and were reported to have died of Plague at Hsinanhwoa, near the foot of Temple Hill, careful inquires have been made, but the findings do not] it is surprising how little cotton verify the report. It was found# there is to
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