The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
l,lOO,OOOPLAGCE CASES
THE BUBONIC HAS MADE ITS WAY
 AROUND THE WORLD.
Nearly 100000 Deaths-The Past Six Months Have Seen Deaths From Plague in Nearly
 Every Country.

Washington Special to Baltimore Sun.
 That the plague Is a serious menace to the health of the world Is disclosed by figures just made public by the
 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, which show that since October last and up to May 30 there have been more than 1,100.e00 cases of bubonic plague throughout the world, and that in the same period the number of deaths from the plague have amounted to nearly 100000. The figures just made public cover all the reports re-
 six months which ended on June 30.
 India continues to be the great
 plague spot of the world. The epi-
 demic Is to be found in Africa, Arabia,
 Argentina, Australia, Brazil. Chile, China, Egypt. Formosa, Great Britain,
 Hawaii. India. Japan. Panama. Peru,
 the Philippines. Russia, Siam. Spain
 and Turkey.
 The cases in India during the six
 months period mentioned have been
 1,137,358, with 976.775 deaths.
 In the six months in Arabia there
 were 1,796 cases and 1,722 deaths. In
 Cape Colony there were 42 cases and 25 deaths. Since the first of the year there have been five deaths from bu. bonic plague in the city of Buenos Ayres. In Australia there have been
 
 there have been 133 deaths and 113 ir Rio de Janeiro. where 254 cases were reported. In Chile there have been six
 deaths and 237 cases. In Hongkong
 there were 36 cases and 26 deaths. 1r
 Formosa there were 1,S06 cases and l.. 575 deaths. In Egypt there were 7t
 deaths from the plague. In Great Bri. tain there have been four cases oi the plague so far this year and one death in the city of Leith in May; also
 a death in Liverpool in the case of ( person taken from a steamship which came from Rangoon.
 In the Hawaiian Islands there were four deaths from the plague between | March 9 and June 20. In Japan there l were eight deaths from the plague l five of which occurred in Tokio There were IA deaths in Siam.
 In Russia there were 390 cases and
 142 deaths in January and $40. deaths from the plague in December. In the Philippine Islands there were 35 cases
 of the plague and 27 deaths-2a
 deaths occurred in Manila. In Peru
 there were 1855 deaths.
 There Is no doubt that the infec.
 tion is widely disseminated both here and In Panama" says Acting Assist. ant Surgeon Mohr, in a report just re. ceived by the Public Health and Ma. | rine Hospital Service from it's station at Colon. and that. in spite of the
 extensive fumigation. there still remain undiscovered foci of infection Since the beginning of the rainy sea- son mosquitoes have been so abundan, as to amount to A veritable plague Even the North Beach, which is gener. | ally free during tho prevalence of the | trade winds, is infested with swarms of them The hospital swarms with | mosquitoes of all varieties. which arc l to be found in the nets in the screened wards. No sooner is q building opened after Immigration that 1t Is filled with mosquitoes"
 The total number of cases of yellow fever on the Isthmus from June 1 to June IS was 24. with deaths Six teen were employees of the Canal Con- mission, one was an employe of the Panama Railroad and seven were not employed by the Canal Commission nor the railroad. On June 26 there was one plague death at Panama.