Show PLAGUE SHIP the arrival of the ship nippon maru at san francisco carrying passengers infected with bubonic plague Is a barong reminder of the ravage of that disease and its prevalence th history of the dl seas on the vessel Is recorded y a cont pa pur the ohp cleared front kin and before teaching nagasaki cipan one of its chinese passengers cers died and on suspicion of the caie 0 death beins the plague the w quarantined it then sailed for yokohama Yoko homa and for honolulu three days before arriving another chinese passenger died and the surgeon held the body until the arrival at honolulu bhora the physicians decided the cause of death to be the bubonic the ship Is now in quarantine at sin francisco this scourge haa with more or less violence hi lie far east for two years indeed it Is always festering in the populous centers of the orient becoming at certain timea more virulent than at others it is rampant in some cities of india at present and Is carrying oft thousands of people its advance to the west Is exciting alarm throughout the whole civilized world and particularly in eastern europe the natives refuse european aid and as a consequence the deaths from the plague in bombay average a week and some weeks runs up to 2200 the disease has spread across india to calcutta where in the first three months of this year there were deaths traveling also to the east by way of the straits settlements it has reached the southern provinces of china and this accounts for the infection ot chinese passengers on tho ship the bubonic plague haa lurked for centuries tn asia it has several trues threatened europe it travels along routes of commerce cind can be carried in ships to any portion of the globe |