Show an unwelcome Vi visitor reappearance OF THE P L AGUE IN EUROPE after an absence of thirty five div i e years plague is reported to have again appeared a P in europe the disease it etwas was recently stated lias has broken 0 out ut in bervia servia the turkish forces occupying the line of the tho river and it is SUM suggested that the tha malady may have been carried there by troops coming from tho the district lately in infested rested with the plague in asiatic turkey it is little likely that any such importation por or will have occurred for in fin the tho first place no troops were moved from the plague stricken district in arabi during the active prevalence of the disease thera there t this 1 lis ils year and 1 in the second pace it is seat scat scarcely cely conceivable that the plague could have been carried by slowly moving troops from the lower euphrates and tigris into servia without indications of its presence among them and its spread to communities on the road plague has not yet certainly shown itself in the asiatic dominions of turkey north of bagdad on the tho tigris and of azizie en on the euphrates both places some 1300 miles distant as the crow blies flies from the turkish camps on the it I 1 is s not however though improbable that in servia bervia aa as in other old haunts of plague in recent years the disease may have reappeared R after a long period of ce cessation atlon this is what has happened of late years in the district of benghazi Ben ghazi north africa inper in persian kurdistan in the assar dis triet western arabia and in mesopotamia Ollo opo tamia tamla during the gradual declension e clen cien le ston sion ef of the plague which beginning after the great outbreak in this country r in 1665 continued until what was was waa believed to be the entire cessation of the disease in 1841 the malady probably lingered longest in servia servin and bulgaria it was in bulgaria that the last gre great at european ur outbreak of plague occurred in 1838 39 when from to of the population were destroyed bythe by the disease it may be therefore that in one on of the later haunts of plague in europe as in some bome of its former haunts in africa and asiaf Asi athe the tho disease e has again shown itself but this conclusion is not to be accepted without very precise evidence there are peculiar liabilities to error in forming a judgment as to the existence of plague on the lower danube and Us tributaries tributa ries rles there on the bottom lands malarial fevers often of the severest type have a home it has happened that russian and turkish armies camp campaigning a aning along the danube have been terribly scourged urged by diseases before the cessation of the plague in europe it was often a matter of doubt with medical stanna of armies in the field on the line of the danube whether they were dealing with malarial fever or with plague although the active prevalence of plague has cea ceased ed in bagdad and the tho infected districts south of the city since sino e the beginning of july cases of the disease still occur from time to io time moreover there has been an outbreak of plague at ahus terin southwestern south western persia plague has also aiso been reported in persian kurdistan but there is reas reason on to believe that this disease which was here designated plague was in reality pox ex |