Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-13

siyc smell Now however thc haste
with which the dead aye drpa. d of
doe. not admit ~ suCh treatment. ard
thc very 3ir about Canton BIS Illen with
the pcsucucc. Tine richer Chin .sr Of
the city have been doiHr what they
could 10 relieve che d.sU. and there
Ifs number oi ChlfIaU|. suci1iiuus
which are aiding n the disposal Of ihs
dead. AZ one dispgnafF alone 3o1I
collins have been gwen aW.u aud DO b.
estimated that up 90 iH. time bHuI1
collins howe been furnished by such
associations.
The sanitary board of Hong Kong
visited the plaguc.sifics.u parts of
Canton some weeks IgU. aud mIde 1
report uu The disease and iIs symptom
10 com upon one without warning loo
thc shape ul o. fever. which raise iIe
temperature ui the patient in u short
time 90 Iu4 degrees and upward. There
BE- no. chill and no other pfomDuiHN
SYMPTOMS The patient has severe
headache. and Zoe shows signs oi s'upus
After twelve hours the glands ui the
neck. the amp.t or the groin begin i1
voll. and they soon become u.s. big as
O hens cgs. These swciIn-s are baud
and exc cdnrly tender bui they d1 not
suppufito. lu some cases "a vomiting
Of blood occurs. and within few hours
the man dies Some few recover after
having been attacked, aud Of they gIu
keep themselves alive for more than N
days after their exposure there b. o.
chance tor them. The disease seems 90
Doe very Infectious. and in those quarters
where it Is raging Il has more imam de-
clmlied the population. ln one small
street the sanitary burd OF Hong Kong
found thirty deaths and 100 another out
OF 10 people only forty have survived.
AZ one OF The gates of Canton "a man
took box the other day aud dropped
a cash into u every time "a coffin was
carried out Al . O'Clock In tht after.
noon he counted thc cash add found ne
had no DO the tox
The disease IS very sudden Boz iis az.
lacks, l-d the only safety from Do seems
10 b. 90 get out ui us range For weeks
~ people have been living from Canton.
aud a letter which ] saw the other dly
states that every house seems 90 have
IT, dead. A few days ago a thlc' entered
a house iu which the whole family had
died OF tHe plague, expecting TO have
an easy haul. lie was stricken while
IN the act OF rohbng the dead, aud q
day or two later hts body with the booty
upon Il, vas found lying in the house
a curious thing about the plague Is that
% affects some kinds of animals as well
as men, and IN Canton it attacked the
rats of the city first Dead rats were
found in the drains OF the Infected
quarter, aud the rats ran nom such
places almost as fast as the human spc.
cic8. IN every house where dead rats
were lound h was seen that the people
had taken the black plague, aud the
sign OF a dead rat will now cause fam.
ily TO 49,
The Hong Kong doctor at first said
that the disease was not OF a parasitic
nature, and that d could not be carried
To any great distance; but tins Is thought
by mauy to De a mistake, aud u is now
said that iis germs can bee transported
~ clothing aud 10 other ways, aud the
Japan Mail Is advising tile most rigid
sanitary precautions against all OF the
Hong Kong steamers. In one editorial
II asserts that even shotgun quarantine
would be iustiiablc against b. aud when
it is remembered that every ten days
uig iclm,hp rom Hong Kong lands
~ san Francisco aud Vancouver Do
would seem advisable that the greatest
care Doe taken 10 keep 10 ONT ui America.
IL Is thought here that the disease can.
not gct hrm hold 0l any quarter which
has good sanitary arrangements, and SO
far believe, only AsMtiCs have been
afflicted with o. % has attacked Hong
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