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I r 1 t 1 7 Y f pr o i F Jal t k W I-W 1 r JQ Z P c d e I t 1 f. f i t 1 1 1 l 1 fu v t k c- c cY Y ron ren millions of t dollars Is about the thc KIM bill Uncle Sam Sam has to foot In order r to light fight ort ofT the grim clutches of King Deaths Death under his favorite guise ol ot bubonic plague J in the Philippine Is Is- Is lands ands The plague has always al been J fond of or sneaking into Manila and andS S sweeping through the entire Filipino archipelago o taking toll of the tho shivering shiver shiver- In ing millions b by ly the tens of or thousands Just acro across a narrow stretch of water from Manila King Bubonic S Plague has his cave cavo where he appe appear to have been Leen born and bred Right night in the teeming heart of China not far from mm rom the tens fens that surround the thc yellow yel yel- low torrent of the Great Grent Yellow or lang Klang ste Klang river appears to havo hayo boon blon the thc prehistoric home and breedIng breed- breed lug Ing place of ot King 1 Plague For countless centuries tho the Chinese S have died dice like flies flics from plague AS a result the Chinaman today stands more nore chance of recovery recover from tram bubonic Plague than an any other race His blood for centuries ha haN fought thc the deadly germ of this dIH disease a a a germ that is simply a n short stumpy stump rod oval in form which once in the human bod body multiplies b by the thc billions and sucks s the vitality out of the blood leaving only a loathsome decaying fluid that carries carrieR further death to e every bit of human II flesh sh or it comes in contact con eon tact with Uncle Sam m however has never turned tall tail on an any foe toc and toda today quiet unassuming men en and women I M and and nurses are arc waging silent but heroic warfare with the plague ue bacillus and If on n the ground that Is inside i a human body before the deadly germ erm Uncle Sam's Sams clans cian with their test tubes tub H and their toxin anti always aiwas defeat lefeat King Plague Tho They can drive o him hea headlong cl in lug ing and dying from Crom the blood of human human human hu hu- hu- hu man beings into which a white clad m medical has hns infused a tin tiny dose of ot anti toxin But the toxin anti-toxin must get there before the plague Ilic 1 hc terrific virulence of or the bubonic germ erm its deadliness deadlines to human life liCe an anthe and the utter helplessness 8 of the human protoplasm or organism when once Its Us vital clement element is attacked Is simply but startlingly told b by the death rate Among Europeans and Americans the rate of mortality is total That Is none recover Occasionally one here and there thero out of or thousands ma may survive sur sur- vive Ive but hut even In these few Isolated instances physicians prefer to doubt that they ever had the thc true bubonic prague germ erm Death Rate Hutc Appalling But among the thc Filipinos one ono out of or four recover Among Amons tho the Chinese however er only every o other victim dies Hes I The blood of tho tim Chinaman can better grapple with the bubonic germ be because because because be- be I I cause his Lather father and grandfather and many generations back o of these have ha i faced and died fI lighting fighting this dread disease dis- dis j ease Hence the th Chinaman's blood Inherits certain toxic qualities which which counteract the poisonous influences of or orthe the germs which swarm in tn the patients patient's patients patient's patients patient's pa pa- tient's blood b by countless millions The Tho terrific outbreak ak of or plague ue and cholera In iii the Philippines prevented an any welcome by tho the Filipinos to our fleet lect when the great relt battleship flotilla reached Manila ba bay Just Juht what bubonic plague can do to human beill be- be ill is told In th the laconic tJ urs of ho tho History of ot Medicine In j bubonic pla plague ut was on- on that iM is it was as world wide and amI swept the nations with an awful scourge e from flom China Chinn clear to Norway Nearly a hundred million are said to have o perished Coining Coming down to more moio recent periods when records are perhaps per JJr haps hap more reliable in 17 1720 0 died in Marseilles In Southern France nearly one half of or the whole population In Jn 1770 died In Mo Moscow cow the thc ancient capital of or Russia Hussla Con Constantinople lc has repeatedly been ben decimated b by the plague In 1801 oO died there in 1813 fell tell und under r the breath of ot the plague As late as 1877 to 1879 the plague which is now causing nus Russia Rusia Ia to tremble trem trem- ble hIe and killing kUling thousands swept like the avenging wrath of a deity delt over o that country and anti slew no Jc less les s than three millions of people Tho rho ho Tuk 1 and Co Coily So that It Is no ordinary task that Undo Uncle Sam faces when ho ventures to hold up a warning hand to I King ng Plague uc and undertakes to hold him back In his present attempt to rep repeat at his historic march malch of or death among the Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands i The rile Intelligent lighting n of tho the plague of ot course beg benan when wilen the thc germ was isolated d. d Yet it wa wis a number number number num num- ber of ears years before the method by which the disease propagates itself was dIscovered disco Bubonic plague rapidly as It spreads yet ret does docs not spread from ono one sick II man to another er Direct contact Is not to spread the disease It must enter the human humon body through the stomach as aM asIn asIn In food or by hy its most niost u usual ual route l b by the ilea that lives on tho bi big biff oriental rat that In China and the Philippines hence the tho slogan of or the American ph physicians fighting fighting- the I plague in Manila i 18 Is Inoculate Inoculate- all suspects who have been near neUI a caSe casc of plague Ia ue Second kill all the rats that can I be caught In the neighborhood nel of a aj j known case case of ot bubonic plague Tiles Flies lIs Fleas Ilens and Rats flats Flies alto also spread the thc disease ago In the same game way that they contribute so 0 largely hugel to the spread l of or typhoid fever namely b by picking ln up til the g germs through walking In and anti flying Into human habitations and walking on food material which is later re received re- re Into a a. human stomach Ver Very simple of ot course but this simple fact tact solved sol much of ot the difficulty in the way wa of or beating King Plague onci the scientific men found it out and in iii instructed the workers But the rats which the carry in infected in- in fleas appear in iii Manila at an any rate to be the tho pest bearers It must b bo remembered d that in Manila the disease attacks almost entirely thc the lower classes Among tho the population where personal cleanliness is held next to tu J godliness few cases of or plague occur Of or course anyone Is exposed to fo tho bite of or an infected flea Hea while passing near some sonic Chinaman or Filipino who permits himself to carry carTY about these Un tiny pests Jests S As a result of ot tills this fact tact the fighters of or Uncle Sam In Manila l offer rewards for rats rals dead or alive c no matter where whelO they are caught This Is to attempt to Iced keep down the number number num num- ber of or the tho ro rodents throughout tho the I Philippines generally But when a case caso has developed de in a house the thc rats are aie doomed Trained rat catchers catchers catchers catch catch- ers are arc sent ent wearing badges from the health department which permit them access to an any place and a big rat at hunt hunt- immediately ensues en E before tho the rat catchers arrive arrive arrive ar ar- ar- ar rive come the medical men with their toxin anti anti and frequently they are arc compelled comp to use force In order to compel thc the I Ignorant Chinese and Filipinos to submit to an nn operation that will practically save SIlVO their lives Tho The photograph raph showing the physicians clans Injecting the thc life saving antitoxin antitoxin anti anU- toxin into the arm of or a Chinese e aught i In n a house whore where plague ha has been found shows Idl idly icily the tho sordid surroundings s of ot these natives eN and give I q a a. line fine Idea of Just what unsanitary conditions th the medical medi cal men mon must contend against The man himself Is an emaciated specimen whose body bully would offer otter practically no opposition to the venomous venomous venomous venom venom- j ous bacillus bacillus- of ot the plague unless ho he were treated b by the toxin anti and hi his hig blood made alive with material In itself poisonous to the deadly I plague germs erms Yet oven such a a. poor specimen of or a man can be bo fortified with toxin anti-toxin and can bid defiance to tho the pla plague ue bacillus where formerly such a case caso would be absolutely without without without with with- I out hope and not worth carrying to toa toa toa a plague hospital Affects Men More Than Women omen A most curious fact concerning tho the Plague Is that In Manila sInce tho United States government huts has been keeping records six men have caught th the plague to every woman who has baa become Infected Much uch of this Is supposed c to be duo to n a. more natural cleanliness In habits on the l part rt of or women Still SUll this seems hard to assume assume assume as as- sume us as of at Itself sufficient to explain tho the death rate of or six men to ono one woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man from bubonic Infection The Thc swiftest death from plague comes com s from the pneumonic form Corm in which tho the lungs lung become the Infected I portion of ot tho the bod body Death comes cornea tc victims In a few hours at nt most rho The ordinary runs rune about 1 it days and death usual usually comes from heart failure or exhaustion from lack of ot nutrition Two inoculations of ot the tho saving life serum are arc necessary before tho work seems to bo be accomplished and the blood becomes fortified with tho the antitoxic anti anti- toxic principles sufficiently to kill whatever w bubonic bacilli b may work their a way into the bod body Tho The serum comes In glass cUn cylinders lers and Is put into the thc bod body by pushing a small glass glaas piston or plunger Into tho the airtight glass hlas tube tuba containing the toxin anti The Tho enormous amount of ot work In carrying out the needed precautions against the spread of Infection is strikingly shown by the fact tact that over oyer rats have been caught by tho the health authorities In Manila In a single month Thousands more havo have been poisoned or suffocated in their holes with sulphur fumes Of course coursol the fleas dlo dio when tho the bodies of ot th thO rats are arc burnt as Is always alwa's done dona with these rodents When Germ Was Identified Tho germ was first isolated by Kit t asato asalo and in 1894 The sick during the first three or four tour days dars of ot the tho disease frequently wander about tho streets with pale drawn faces Their slag staggering gait would make It suspected that they were drunken men until closer inspection shows their pallid faces their fever withered lips lipa and pain contracted mouths But all this Is now happily avoided when Uncle Undo Sams Sam's nurses and physicians clans first Inoculate with anti anU Of Ot a actual cases about ono fifth can b bl be J cured Tho old Chinese plague hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital shown n In one of ot tho the photographs photograph has seen some Bomo of or tho most horrible spectacles under tho the old Spanish h re regime lm where myriads died in dirt and agony Another photo photograph shows how tho the fishermen live It is in such quarters that tho the plague reaps Its Ita rIch richest cst haricot harvest har har- vest with a n. death rate nearly total The Tho old Chinese quarters show how the projecting balconies CIa gradually shut out tho the sky as In some soma of tho the medieval cities of Northern Europe Tho battle Is severe and recent events show that th the tho men man nn and supplies supplies sup sup- plies now on hand aro are helpless once onca I tho gIant specter really bestirs L himself in In tho the land larul oC ot tho the Filipinos It will vIll take surely possibly S bly before the work can bo be considered won well In hand band |