Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-01

Within three months the health board
| If New York, says The Sun, will have
in operation laboratory especially
built for and wholly devoted to the
! study of the germs Of the bubonic
plague So far as the health officials
here know, it will be the only labora-
tory in the world entirely devoted 10
that purpose. Certainly it will be the
| only municipal institution Of the kind
in this or any other country, and, while
the need of its establishment may not
be fully realized now, with no case Of
the disease very near, its value, should
the plague appear, would be inestina-
BILE. And Glasgow is less than eight
days from New DIRK.
Laboratories are not built and equip
health department took time by the
forelock. Ever since last November,
when the coffee laden steamer TAYLOR
brought cases of the plague to New
York from Santos, Brazil, the boards
physicians, under Instructions from
President Murphy. have been studying
the disease and the best methods Of
meeting it should it appear within the
city. \ general plan for a laboratory
was devised by DR.. Herman NJ. Biggs
the boards pathologist; Dr. w. II.
Park and DR.. Frederick II. Dillingham;,
assistant sanitary superintendent of
Manhattan. The plan was ndorsed by
Colonel Murphy, approved by the
board, and the board of estimate has
appropriated SOS, 600 for the cCnstruc-
ton of the building. Two months will
be required for its completion. BY the
end of December it is expected that the
laboratory will be in working order.
The New York health board has al
ready three laboratories for tie study
of disease germs. but the plague germ
is no ordinary bacillus. and it would be
dangerous to handle it in any Of the
existing buildings. In Lisbon and
Vienna deaths have already occurred |
from just such attempts. The most !
deadly form of the disease is contract
ed from inhaling the Dubouic bacillus. |
The new laboratory is designed to re- |
duce to the minimum all danger Of |
1t is to be placed on the
East river front in a distant part Of |
the grounds of the Willard Parker
Memorial hospital, where CONTAGIOUS
diseases are treated. and it is to BE so
constructed that 10 germ shall escape
Its windows. screened to keep ont flies
and mosquitoes, will be placed only in
the safe parts of the building. The
walls. Of steel and cement, will he
'atproof. and the surface Of the in
-erior will be so smooth that there
will lie no pinh0le in which a stray
germ may lurk. The building will
nave IFS private sewer to the river. and
ven that will have patent disinfect.
ng Trap attached. The doors will be
iouble, and stringent regulations will
re framed, Which will exclude from
he laboratory every person except its
'Wn staff. The iceman will call. but
le will fill the iceboXes from the out.
ide without even a peep inside the
The laboratory IS to be Il two story
building and a small one. only - by 80
ett diui it viii serve a double Dur
'ose. The ground floor VIII he taken
p principally by eight stalls for the
orses which will supply the anti pest
eluln. In this floor there will he com.
alativcly little danger of Infection.
ut all the same it will be barred 10
verybody but the bactoriologi,t ana
is helper. under whose care the horses
ill be. 1t is on the floor above that
nc plague germs will he kept and ey-
undertaken, and the two
oors do not communicate. 4 staircase
ON the outside of the building will
ad to the top floor. vt one end of
MS Will be the room In which are the
ralthy animals, rabbits, rats and
llnea pigs destined for plague eXpc-
ments. After incubation they will
transferred to another room at the
her end of the building. When dead
eir bodies will be storlizel then ere. .
atcd. No Unlucky rat. rabbit or rui
"a pig that ever enters the building
i'll ever leave it except in ashes. The
st or the space in the top story will Z
taken up by the culture ROOM stcr.
zers. in which the preventive serum
Ill be stored. and two rooms for
Icroscopioal work
)ne of the few things made clear hy
ldies of the hubonic plague on this
lie of the world is that the only way
diagnose positively cases of the dis.
Sc Is from n microscopical cXamina.
n OF serum taken from the patient.
70 present outbreak of the placue
Glasgow proceeded for days before j,I
nature Of the disease was rccoq.
ed. A dock laborcrs wife was the
1t victim stricken. She died. it WAS Al
ieved of pneumonia, and wake ar
S held over her body. Tive DAYS pn'
or three persons who had attended
wake were stricken, and in these No
les for the first time the pre- essence ---
the bubonic plague was suspected.
of these died, and two recovered.
they had spread the infection be.
e 1t had been positively demon.
lted that the disease from which
suffered was the dread bubonic 'ei
que 'C