The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-11-29
BUB0NlC PLAGUE.
No Uneasiness Need Be Felt About
Cases NowIin New York,

New York Saturday, having on board
two patients suffering with the bubonic
plague, has caused considerable excite
ment and anxiety in this country regard
ing the spread of the disease here.
People who have felt any uneasiness
over the appearance here of this plague,
especially the residents of New York.
were greatly relieved when the informa-
ton was given out by the deputy health
officer of the New York port and the
board of consulting physicians that there
is no danger of the disease spreading in
that city. That announcement was made
Saturday.
A novel feature of the case and one
that is somewhat puzzling to the New
York health authorities is Low to dis
pose of and render harmless the rats and
other vermin on board the infected
steamer, as it is we'll known that such
creatures may spread the disease. 1t is
likely that they will be destroyed by
flooding the ship with steam.
The cargo of coffee will be discharged
and the sacks disenfected. Then the cot
fee will be placed in new sacks.
The bacillus of the bubonic plague
was discovered IN 1894, when the disease
was epidemic in Hongkoag. II is found
in large numbers in the swellings char
acteustic of the plague.
The following from the New York
world will prove both interesting and
palliating TO those who have felt any un-
easiness at the appearance N this coCn-
try of this disease:
The arrival of the buboric plague ex-
cites not the slightest alarm The only
emotion possible is one of 0uriOsity-to
peep at this terror of the tropics, this
greatest of the scourges of man through
the centuries, as it fumes imIotently be-
hind the strong bars of our quarantine
and sanitary systems.
SIN Canton, parallel with the wall d.
vd ng the old from the new city, there
is ditch four feet deep AID about eight
miles long into which the grayeyards of
a thousand years drain and INTO which |
those teeming and unclean Oriental null |
titudes pour all their refuse. For six
hours each day the hot sun beats down !
upon this vast trench. There the mil
lions on millions of rats which infest
that and all other Orient cities flock to
iced.
son April 18th, 1894, 1t was reported
to the mandarin that the rars were dying
by the thousand not only at the tench,
but in all parts of the acres of Canton's
swarming slums. On April 18th 1t was
reported that the people we're dying by
the score from the disease spread by tue
rats.
'sThe black death had once more be-
gun to crawl up out of those unspeakabie
lurking places-the black death that in
one of its visits to Europe killed more
than half the population and almost de-
populated England and Italy; that killed
more than 25 900, 900 Europeans between
the sixth and sixteenth centuries.
"The Chinese consulted the astrologers
and learning that the plague would cease
on certain date promptly officially
moved that date backward several weeks
upon the calender TO deceiv, the god OF
uestilence. This measure proving lnef'
fectual, the plague was permitted TO rage
uudsturbed. From Canton it went to
Hongkong, Staying tens of thousands IN
the native quarters and less than score
Of the European population living in the
part of the city under British sanitary
regulations.
"After many futile attempts to cross
the Pacific in various directions 1T sllpp-
ed. perhaps overland, into India, with its
population living in squalor and then
wasted by famine. From 1896 until the
present time it has been crawling from
city to city, from village to village, from
hamlet to hamlet, Staying hundreds of
thousands. 1t has laid tribute upon prac'
tically the whole of British India, from
Delhi in the north to Bangalore in the
south.
"The whole Mediterranean is we'll
guarded and the plague could not get be-
yond the harbor of any city. Egypt in
former years threw wide hospitable gates
to it. But England on guard there now,
turned it away. At last it got foothold
for moment in dirty Oporto. A ship
sailing from there to Santos carried 1T
across the A tlantic to the shores of Bra
zil. The telegraph sent out the warning
from Santos, and when the Taylor ar
rived from there on Friday eur soldiers
of science at quarantine were ready.
"Civilization rests secure, guarded by
her soldiers OF science"
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