Show PLAGUE PLAQUE NOT EPIDEMIC ACCORDING TO EXPERT SAN BAN FRANCISCO Sept Sopt 13 There is no epidemic of ef bubonic pla plague ue at Martinez Martine said Rid Dr J. J D. D Lon Long The death there was sporadic We had an another ther caso case like it this year in San Benito Bonito county wh where re a Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese anee woman a a. strawberry t picker i ker died Ever since bubonic pIa plague o first gained Rained a II foothold on this continent ent it has hs continued prevalent amon among rats rats' and and ground squirrels The laborer at Martinez and the Japanese strawberry picker in San Ban Benito were w working in neighborhoods known to be infested with diseased squirrels No doubt they became infected themselves from working work work- in lug ing in ground infected by squirrels The campaign n of exterminating the tho squirrels is a 3 tremendous tremendous' task and the tho appropriation n from irom Washington Washing Washing- ton which f h I understand 1 to have boon bean ma mad made e th though u h I have not riot yet received official notification of it is is' a result of the increased popular interest in our task Su Such h cases as these show its h necessity but the appropriation line has nothing whatever er to do with this special spec ial ml m manifestation of a a. chronic e condi condition n i. i tion r can en be cured r d only slowly appropriation The was asked 11 for or lo long ng before h wa v crOO 0 The e cases es cs lo of t lagua su that th t ha haves have appe appeared red in m in California i tJ is' year jear t tracer a to th tb the first p of t DP or th the thet disease i 1 in an o p lor to the tho e earthquake e and firo o. o It was sta stamped d dout dout out after many months of effort by liy the f federal health authorities who subjected subjected sub sub- th the Chinatown and slums dietrict district dis die district of ot San Sari to a thorough clea cleaning ing up It having developed that rats were tho the principal medium of at the contagions contagion's spread the ov first turned its attention to ridding its city of tho the rod nt pest and then began be n a systematic systematic system system- campaign against the rats rats' country country country coun coun- try cousin th the common comman ground round squirrel Sc re rel which was found to be infected in portions of the state This warfare warfare warfare war war- fare has never been abated in the districts dis die a where pla plague ue had made mad its appearance appearance ap ape ap- ap alDon among the tho squirrels Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- of thousands of the little animals animals ani ani- mals have been slain Bubonic pla plague e has never nevor obtained a real foothold in this country according ac ac- ac- ac cordin cording to the government experts andis and andis is 15 never nover likely to owing to the tho differ difference mice once ence between the American mode modo of ot living and conditions in oriental countries countries countries coun coun- tries whence it comes All An of the cases reported on this coast have been among orientals or directly traceable to contact with them I I |