The news which reaches us day by day of the plague outbreak in Vienna is becoming more serious and one begins to ask where it will end? So far as can be gathered its commencement was the result of gross carelessness on the part of Bausch, the laboratory assistant at the hospital, who has, however, by his death, Sites sas to feed the animals, principally aid the penalty of his folly. One of his guinea'pigs, which were used for exper menting on with plague and other bacilli. That he found the task objectionable was well-known and presumably to all evi the disagreeableness of his duties, he indulged in drink. While in a state of intoxication he handled some animals which had been inoculated with plague bacilli, with the result that he became infected and died. Dr. Herman Muller (the doctor who had brought the germs over from Bombay for experimental purposes) at once perceived the immense danger of cent and did all he could to minimise it, but unfortunately he too became infected and has since died. The two nurses Pecha and Hochegger -who nursed Bausch have both taken the loathsome disease and though still alive there is very little chance of their recovery. They sre being nursed Sisters" enveloped in mackintosh cloaks which are sprinkled with carbolic every fifteen minutes; their mouths, noses, and ears being likewise protected, 0 it is hoped that they may escape infection. Still the situation is undoubtedly most serious and the people of Vienna are naturally much alarmed. The hospital is old and most insanitary and the laboratory in which these infected animals were kept (luckily they have now all been destroyed) is situated almost in the centre of the building, so the only cause for wonder is that a serious outbreak of malignant disease has not occurred sooner,
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