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Show SAN FRANCISCO HAS PLAGUE. Six Death! liave Occurred Energetic .Pleasures to l'revent Its Spread. The board of health has adopted a resolution declaring- that bubonic plague exists in Sun Francisco. The health authorities say that while there are no living" cases there has been six deaths during the past three months, and they have decided to take precautions precau-tions against the development and spread of the disease. A force of pby-sieians pby-sieians has gone through Chinatown to treat the Chinese with hait'kine prophy" lactic, as a preventative against the plague. When it became known in Chinatown that the board of health had determined deter-mined to inoculate the residents of the Chinese section, groups of Chinese gathered on every corner and denounced de-nounced the action of the board as outrageous. out-rageous. Some of the more wealthy of the indignant Chinese hurried their ! families into hacks and other vehicles, I in an attempt to send them out of the district. Same of them succeeded in ! getting as far as the city limits, where they were stopped by the police. I Assistant Surgeon A. S. Lloyd, of the ! United States marine hospital at Chi- eago. has been ordered to San Fran- j 1 cisoo to assist in the work of prevent- i j insr the spread of the plague if it should ! break out. Assistant Surgeon Ammse i of Detroit has left Detroit for Honolulu j on a similar mission. |