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Show ASIA GREAT DANGER POINT Is Today, and Hat Been for All Time, the Home of Plague and Pestilence. , Asln Is the home of plague and many other pests. The facilities for ' travel have brought Asia and our Pa-elflc Pa-elflc coust together, while the possession posses-sion of the Philippines has multiplied the mcaslons for Intercourse with the far east. Thus, says the Journal of the Amerlcnn Medical Association, the diseases of Asia threaten the lives and health of (he American population, popula-tion, and the situation has been ng- , gravated by tho conditions of war. With the unvarying perslstence-of bu,-bonlc bu,-bonlc plague In Asia, It seems timely to lay further afrees on 'these points. The obstacles In the way of successfully success-fully grappling with the plague problem prob-lem In Asia are almost Insurmountable. Insurmount-able. 'The natives object to wholesale whole-sale Inoculation and rat destruction; hence the only effective mode of procedure pro-cedure Is most difficult to carry out Ttellglous scruples against the slaughter slaugh-ter of nnlmlals. even vermin, are prev alent throughout India, Consequently It may be taken for granted that ptcgiie will continue to persist In Asia, and as It Is extremely rife In the two great ports of that continent. con-tinent. Hong Kong nnd Bombay, It Is not an Impossibility that It will be conveyed con-veyed thence to American ports on the 1'nclflc coast. While there Is no doubt that our health authorities are awake to the danger. It Is well to know that the dunger exists In Asia. |