Show mm PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO Surgeon General Wyman Says It Will WilI Require Some Time for Complete Eradication Washington Jan 12 A feature of the time annual report of Surgeon S General Wyman of the public health and ald ma marine marine rine rifle service transmitted to congress during the past week Is a i review of the bubonic plague situation at San Francisco Up to Nov o 19 there them had been ninetysix cases ca s of This dish dis disease ease and sixty deaths The surgeon general states that It has been belu I Ible ble bie to discover the origin of n the plague outbreak While the time surgeon sUr eon general states that the disease Is reported rep as diminishing rapidly he assert i that It will 11 of necessity require a long time for complete eradication eradicating The surgeon general calls particular attention to typhoid fever r ver the ne ue necessity of ot a regulation ander inder th the Inter Interstate interstate state clauso clause of ot the quarantine act net of ot 1893 providing for the time examination of the water and food lood supply on railway passenger trains In order to meet the growing demand for increased lCd federal activity in mat matters t tI I of public health Mr Jr Wyman Vyman a aits ks authority to convey Information through bulletins and pamphlet As a further aid he asks for special author authority authorIty authority ity and appropriations for the tho prepare preparation tion and distribution o Q of short treatIses on tuberculosis particularly relating to transmission and methods of prevention prevention tion As a further means to secure coop cooperation cooperation with state and municipal health I authorities auth a recommendation Is mude for tor the time establishment of or a cf ef f hy by hygiene h giene glen connected with the time hygienic lab laboratory laboratory oratory ora toO of the service to t which ac accredited accredited accredited credited state and municipal health of officers ficera may be assigned bv hy tho the proper roper state authority for courses of ot research and special Instruction |