ing. the passengers arriving anghai on October 27 iron was Dr, Wa Liensteh, who Was for the past two months been engaged upon the anti-plague campaign in the Tungliao region Manchuria, In spite of his fatuous labours Dr. Wu was took inge well and cheerful and willingly gave nur reporter an account of the plague outbreak, which at one time fcausged so much concern and threat~ toned to invade Mukden, Newchwang, Harbin and North China.
Te appears that July. this year causing fever, giddiness, headache, occasionally diarrhoea, and sudden un two to three days had been the Mongols in the up regions of Man arly in August bad at-ko! some Chinese at Tunglian, minus of the Ssu-Tao and Chinese and Japanese doctors sent respectively from Fengtien and the South Manchurian Railway could nat definitely identity the outbreak until Dr, Chen Wing-han of the Manchurian Plague Prevention Ser rived on September 6.
Science and Superstition On the following day Dr. Chun Harbin that he had corpse with a bubo in the in which characteristic plague Thaslly were found, This discovery was confirmed within the next few days at the Harbin Laboratory by malar cultural tests, Immediately after the matter was reported to Marshal Chang Hsueh-Bane at Mukden, he instructed Dr. Wu Lien-teh to go to the spot and devise Way and means to meet the contingency, De Wu found Arrival a curious state of altairs. rhe veal people, including many oitigials, believed the deaths tobe tle partly to poisonous. emissions fron the ground and partly to con= tuninated water.
Although mestieal practitioners and nodical officers of the railway were plentiful, they had only vaseue ikees of plage sup: pression and wasted much time and Money buying hundreds of pounds of with which to dlisinfeet rooms, el thes and The sick and inthe infected Police and coli fight refused to work, and sinher of contacts ineubatiseaxe oscaned in all Pate Centres on Chienehiatien Fortunately, the bubonic type of plague travelled much slower than the pneumonic type, requiring ax a rule the intervention of the rat and ite flea, 0 that although sporadic eaas occurred at many places along, the railway, such as, Sanlin, Talin, Chongehiatun, Tunglian, Pamions ehenst, further invasion of froah territory was easily: pr Why this outbreak specially picked out the litre village of Chien cchiation containing 1800 inhabitants ie of August a Mongol eeupied a room in the Ineal inn and died within two days, Soon After more deaths occurred among the occupants as well ax in other parts of the village, particularly eastern district, where the ho were poorly built of mud and straw, while inthe bette) torn occupied by shops. the ep showed lest headway'. The huts and kanss (hollow platforms for sleeping) were often ideal nests for the germ-carrying rodents One Fifth of Popul ether 10 persons (including, a large percentage of women) or. fane-fifth of the population died of the plague in this little village. plague Hundvots escaped, otherwise the Imuatadies, Tie Chinese Charsé Dr. Chen, ied by the Afghanistan in London with a view A treaty of friendship. Ie has been instructed by Dr. C. T. Wang to begin conversa tions.
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