| Show ANOTHER CASE o OF TH THE FUG PLAGUE Four More Suspected and Un Under Under Under der Observation by the Authorities FLEAS TRANSMIT DISEASE SITUATION MOT OT CONSIDERED ALARMING San Francisco Cat Cal Sept apt 7 One ad additional additional case of bubonic plague was charted today by the board of ot health and four more suspected cases have been isolated and are under observation tion The board ha h e authorized the es establishing est t of a temporary hospital camp at Ingleside Thence the In Inmates Inmates inmates mates of ot the city and county hospital will be moved and the latter buildings old frame structures long ago con probably be burned Drs McConkey Harvey Manning Power and President Simon composing the board of ot health have submitted their resignations to Mayor Taylor and it is understood that th t their successors will be appointed next week Dissen Dissension Dissension sion slon in the board as to the advisability of certain measures proposed for the eradication of the plague and a feeling on the part of at least one member m that the new mayor should have opportunity ty to appoint a board of his own choos choosing choosIng choosing ing actuated the resignations Situation Summarized The board at a meeting today at attended attended attended tended by President of the state board of ot health an am Colonel Austin of ot the marine hospital service adopted a report of the plague situ situation situation situation prepared by Health Officer Watkins Wat Watkins Watkins kins It Its is in part and substance as follows Because alarmist reports which are unwarranted by the facts regarding the public health of at San Francisco have appeared in the public prints of other cities It Is deemed d emed expedient to give Sive out officially to the Associated Press the following statement of ot facts which have been from the first visible on the bulletin board of the central health office First Case May 27 Th The first case of bubonic plague appeared on May 27 at the United States marine hospital In a Finnish sailor taken from the tug WIzard Thereafter no cases appeared in the city until Aug 12 when two cases es were reported from the North Beach district Immediately the tl e officials of all aU hen hos hospitals and dispensaries were warned to tobe tobe tobe be on the lookout for similar cases with the result that to date data eighteen authentic cases in all have been re reported reported ported Of these eighteen cases nine are still living and in a fair way to recover There ThOre exists toddy today tod y no doubt of the causes of the bubonic bubO lc plague nor of the means by which it may be eradicated Wherever international commerce exists and In proportion to the volume of that commerce the rat and the diseases of the rat orie one of which is plague are bound to appear There are said to be some five varieties of ot rat flea of which two will bite men Transmitted by Fleas The plague bacillus is transmitted by the flea of ot these t ese two varieties to tomen tomen tomen men Other modes of infection exist but are very much less frequent The common rat is said to propagate every five weeks and thrives in proportion as its surroundings are unsanitary The problem which confronts the health authorities then is plain and presents no insurmountable difficulties All rats caught or found dead are ara ticketed and microscopically examined When plague infection is found the place and locality from which the ro rodent rodent rodent dent came is at once subjected to san sanitary sanItary attack For this purpose the city has been districted and officered Not a Local Affair At the international congress of ot physicians at Lisbon Portugal in 1956 19 G GIt it was declared that the safeguarding of communities against plague should be an international function Recognizing Recognizing Recognizing the validity of this opinion the mayor of San Francisco requested the federal government to assume control of the situation here This request has been granted Dr Rupert Blue of the marine hos hospital hospital hospital pital service an authority on plague eradication and who has had charge of ot the sanitation of the Jamestown expo exposition exposition exposition will arrive here from Washing ton next Tuesday or Wednesday and assume official charge |
