Plague; its cause and the manner of its extension, its menace, its control and suppression, its diagnosis and treatment (1916) (14780044031)

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Title: Plague; its cause and the manner of its extension, its menace, its control and suppression, its diagnosis and treatment

Year: 1916 (1910s)

Authors: Jackson, Thomas W. (Thomas Wright), 1870-1925 Schöbl, Otto

Subjects: Plague Rats as carriers of disease

Publisher: (Philadelphia) J. B. Lippincott company

Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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3, cases of rat plague beganto occur in the Tondo district in a section lying be-tween Manila Bay and the Estero de la Reina andextending northward from Calle Moriones. Thiswas a new district for rat plague and as the casesincreased in number we were able to foresee andpredict the appearance of human plague in the samedistrict, which in point of congestion of population,poverty of its residents and in the matter of dilapi-dation of its light material houses and shacks, isabout the worst locality in Manila. From March 22 to September 20, 1913, all thecases of human plague, 11 in number, occurred inthe midst of this district. During the same period25 cases of rat plague were reported from the samesection, and a glance at a map of this part of Tondoinstantly shows the relationship existing here be-tween rat plague and human plague. This relationship is additionally emphasized byreferring to the memoranda concerning certain over-crowded houses, in the midst of the rat plague dis- 3 H £ ^

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ITS CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION 69 trict, where multiple human cases occurred. (Seememoranda in re 1226 Calle Juan Luna and 1364Calle Sande.) The human cases in April were 5 in number, alloriginating in the same house, and the May casesnumbered 4, two of which occurred in the samehouse. It may be explained, in passing, that two casesof human plague, discovered in Malolos, 25 milesfrom Manila, on March 23 and March 26, respec-tively, were definitely traced to the same house inManila, number 12 Calle Aguila, Tondo, both pa-tients having lived in the basement of this houseuntil witliin 48 hours of the development of thedisease. These persons were unrelated and weretwo of a large number of people who lived in a tene-ment at this address. Both patients were detected,while still alive, in Malolos, where they were Hvingin different and widely separated houses. One ofthe patients died in Malolos but the other one wasbrought to Manila by train and died at San LazaroHospital. Fortunately no infecti

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