With regard to the scientific side, the M.MP.P.S, reports that investigations are being carried on to ascer-fain the method of infection from man to man. Hitherto the ratfiea has been believed to cause infection, Dut as there are very few rats in the present plague area, this theory cannot adequately account for the spread of the contagion. It seems more probable that the common flea and the body louse, which are plentiful, may be the means of conveying the plague baeili from the sick to the healthy. Definite and valuable results may be expected from the experiments now being conducted on these ines—Reuter,
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