Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-09-09 | Page 2 | Japan is Hit by Strange New Plague

I JAPAN IS HIT BY STRANGE NEW PLAGUE TOKIO Sept By 9 3 By By The As- As The Press Press The home ot of- of office fice today r reported ported two hundred d cases of or sleep sleeping In sickness In the inland sea district and 61 deaths death s since August 28 Fifty eight or of orthe the tho deaths were In Hyogo prefecture prefecture ture All of the ca cases cs have hate been isolated by tho thu government cx- cx ex experts perls who are studying the tha dis disease dis- dis disease ease case but who are puzzled by the present nt situation Th The disease first appeared In Japan throe three years Iara ago when about 20 dle died l The epidemic then thell ended suddenly The pres ant ent present plague seems seems- virulent lent the victim dying a II few v after tailing railing asleep It also has I been found that In a II majority or the orthe ortho cases eases the victims are past GO 50 years of age Authorities state the epidemic prefectures Is under control In all tures except where It k II 1 spreading i