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Show PLAGUE AT HAVANA. Bubonic plague hag made its appearance appear-ance at Havana, Cuba, three cases having hav-ing been reported, all of them resulting re-sulting in death. Xews of the appearance ap-pearance of the deadlv disease doos not excite any apprehension in this country, although if unchecked and the usual precautions omitted it might easily reach the shores of the United States. An American expert is 'on the ground, however, S'irgeon Gu it eras having bf-en sent from Key We-st to investigate in-vestigate and report conditions to Washington. His reeommendations have ben approved by Surgeon General Blue and he will conduct the fiht against the disease. Havana used to be one of the plague soots of the earth, but it was cleaned up and made anitary by the Americans Amer-icans after the close of the Spanish -Am it ban wa r and ha? been carefully watched by the marine hospital pervKe c. r since. From time to time, yeiiow fever ban made its appearand only to be "tamped out by the out bori tie- un-d-T tim direction of experts from the United .States. Without doubt, the present pres-ent outbreak of bubonic plague w-il aict a like fato and there will be no excitement during the proves. It makes one F-huddcr to think what used to happen in the southern states when etlow fever became epidemic, how the population of whole villa ge and parish" rjuecu mbed to the disea ge and conntle-b thousand." were cent to untimely graves. Such things cannot easily happen nowadays. .No sooner docs a rase of yellow fever appear in the south than tho government sends a i-orp of t rained men to tho locality and the disease, seldom gets far beyond the point of infection. Two or three years ago bubonic plague made its appearance ap-pearance on the Pacific coast. Infected Infect-ed rat and squirrels are atill o cRsiou-ally cRsiou-ally found there, but, fhTo is no undue un-due excitement, and no alarm. The government, gov-ernment, experts are ' ' on the job'1 all the time in litis eonntry. and by reason of their per feet knowledge of the origin of the disease. j,nd the remedy as well it. is soon arretted. It is fortunate for Cuba, arid for winter win-ter irilorfj at Ifa,anji that, the United States in vitally interested in the health of the people of the Went Indies and always sends the wont, highly trained .'orp-s of plague, fighters i th,. woild to ihe islands when m-ce-eily require. |