The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-22
New Yorh Health Officers En-
migate 0rien al Nail.
EVERY PRscAuTlon TAKEN.
Physicians Ready for Instant serv-
ice in Case OF EFaerzercy-Rux-
sian Newspapers Place the Blame
for the Pest on Engiand-Thc
World should Unite TO stamp ont
the infectfon-Turkey Is Alarmed.
and Already Is PatroilinS the
Persian Horder.

NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-THE man fran
IE0la which arrived OF the steamship Teu-
tonic from Liverpool has been thoroughly
fumigaIed % guard againsE any possibility
oS danger from the blbanic plague As
soon as he Teusonic reached quarantine
a., mail mater from the infected district
vas put through the process usual n such
cases.
In order 20 prevent the Introduction OF
the plague into this CRY. President Wilson,
Of the hsalth board. mas instructed a. ofl-
GERS Of the department 20 make a careful
investigation OF anything whlch may give
local physicians means of rapid dag
nosas- Drs. Biggs and Prudaen are HOW
engaged in sueh experiments Local ply
sicians admit they bave iittle knowledge OF
the seouTge except what they haze OBJ
123nea by reading the papers.
special 20 The Herald from ST. Peters
burg says: The fear OF the Indian plague
reaching here grows rapidly. The Novos
Fremys says Eng.an3's permitting the
population OF the stricken districts 20 emil
CRATE Rill soon scatter ths plague al over
the country
The Mirovis otgIoskl says: Italy,
France and Austria have taken precsu-
Iions History has Shown that Russia IS
a.ways the country that suffers most from
the pest. Russian doctors should go a.
once % the plzgue-strieken districts and
find out the truth and study ths disease
as We cannot rely on the reports OF the
English. waose commercial interests have
eaten in-o tl1a humanitarian instincts OF all
nations. TIE world should unite 70 form a
Gordon around the devastated plague dis
iricss"
Here all preparations for maritime and
land quarantine are unier consideration.
Doctors have been sent 10 keep a proper
guard on me Persian and Afghan frontiers.
- ..
says. Committees In aid Of the Indian
famine have been instituted by the gov
ernors OF ST. Petersburg Moscow and
Odessa.
Safeguards ia Turkey.
LONDON. Jan. 2l-The Chronicles cor
respondent al Vienna reports thai a Con-
stantinople dispatch SAYS that the porte
has ordered the Persian border 70 be cor
doned in order to exclude the plague.
Deaths for the Week
BOMBAY. Jan. 1--It is officially an
rounced that the deaths from the bubonic
plague for the week number 47e.
Nearly All the Soldiers sick.
LONDON. Jan. 2l.-The Calcutta corre-
spondent OF the Daily Times. after express
ing the hope that parliament viii induce
the government 20 deal in a practical way
with he problem. prints an unusually out
spoken article from the Pioneer declaring
tha; only 2i,0aa Of the whole British garri-
son are free from contagious disease in
some shape or other and that 10 in each
thousand are actually incapacitated. The
disease IL IS said is becoming more de-
structive than ever, and even the buhonic
plague cannot compare as human az
fiction. A squeamish reserve. veiled by
dubious hints" sayS the Pioneer, Is no
longer appropriate 10 the emergency"
plague Reaches kamarfn.
NEW YORK. Jan 21.-A special 10 the
Herald from St Petersburg saws: Two
cases Of bubonic plague. which is raging
In Bombay. are reported from Kamarin.
Kamarin is an island of the west coast
OF Arabia in the Red sea. II is a Brit
ish possession. and one OF the landing
stations near the city OF Mecca. A severe
quarantine has been established by the
Russian authorities.