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Show ', D A NOEII-OF THE PL A OU B. Arn.tleaa tlllea Ara b, No lliaal Ua- nmaa to lha Ul.eaaa. In the absence of a federal health board ll becomes the proper business of all municipal health odclals, es-pcrlaliy es-pcrlaliy nt the seaports to bo prepared to resist the possible approaches of the, bubonlo plsgue. That tho world Is by no means free from tho menace of a Itrcat epldimlc o this back death" Is the declaration of n man who speaks with authority l)r UK Darker Is a pathologist who was at one time n member of the faculty of the Johns Hopkins university, and who now occupies oc-cupies the chair ot pathology at the Rush Medical College, Chicago Two Jcars ago he was sent to India and China by the former Institution to study the plaguo conditions, and later was nppolnted to Invrstlgato tho plague cases In Kan Francisco for tho government gov-ernment Probably thero Is no American Ameri-can who Is better qualified to speak on this subject than Is I)r Darker In a recent address before a medical society Dr Darker announced that American lrlttea nrr far frhm lmmtinn na In tho ' sneaking pestilence which Is spread chleqy through the agency ot rat. In the great epidemic of the fourteenth century, which cost !S 000 000 human lives, It wo a characteristic of the. plaguo that It developed by bounds Us-fore Us-fore thero was time to take precautions a vast proportion of a community would be In tho grasp ot tho illicaic, while the remainder would be terror-stricken terror-stricken Hindu writings 80 years old nolo tho fact that n visitation of the plague was always preceded by a great mortality among rats I)c Darker noted that in India ho saw dead rats everywhere, nnd tho same phenomenon has been observed In Japan It la believed be-lieved that It tho rodents could bo exterminated ex-terminated ns tho government ot Japan Ja-pan haa proposed, tho danger1 of an epidemic of the plague would be much reduced |
