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Show BUBONIC PLACUE AT MANILA. Three Suspicions Cases ISelleved to be the Dreaded Disease. Manila, Jan. 5. The health officers have found a native with all the symptoms symp-toms of bubonic plague in a house in the "walled city," where two suspicious deaths have occurred. The patient has been isolated and every precaution has been taken to prevent a spread of the disease. Washington, Jan. 5. Surgeon General Gen-eral ffjiran has no confirmation of the report that three suspected cas?s of bubonio plague have been discovered within the walled city of Manila, but no attempt is made to conceal the gravity of the situation should the report re-port prove true. Still, it is said a few sporadic eases need not necessarily result re-sult in an epidemic in the islands. Surgeon General Wyman says tho disease no longer created the dread it once did, because it has been demonstrated demon-strated that it can be handled by modern mod-ern science. It has been stamped out in Alexandria, Egypt, Kobe, Japan, and Vienna, Austria. The methods of fighting it are the same as used against smallpox isolation, disinfection and sanitation. The greatest danger is due to its possible pos-sible introduction into new localities through ambulant or walking cases, which defy the surveillance of the authorities. au-thorities. One feature of the cases which is gratifying to the authorities, in view of the possible outbreak of the epidemic in the Philippines, is the fact that its history shows that it docs not attack Europeans as readily as natives. |