Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-10-06

white wand two feet long In their
hands.
Even in those early days the posi-
bility of infection from animals was
realized, although there Is no evidence
of any campaign against rats. It was
against domestic animals that precau
lions were directed most severely. no
dogs evidently were regarded as .
source of danger. One part Of the
plague order reads:
THAT all persons having any dogs
in their house. other than hounds.
spaniels or mastiffs. necessary for the
custody or safe keeping of their
houses. should forthwith convey them
out of the city or cause them to be
killed and carried out of the city and
buried at the common laystall."
Through all the visits of the pestf.
lence dogs were the objects Of special
attention. Right up to the last the
dog clause was found in the plague
orders. and by an order Of 1863 cats
also seem to have come under suspi.
cion. While some of the pestilence
spread all over the country, others
were confined almost entirely to Lon
don. From the latter the Londoner. II
he had the means, might attempt to
escape-if he were allowed. Certain
OF the authorities had no idea Of
spreading the plague any further
afield than could be helped. and Queen
Elizabeth. fo~ one. would not allow
any emigration into the country.
Precautions Taken at Windsor.
AT the time of the plague of 1863 "a
gallows was set up in the market
place of Windsor to hang all such as
should come there from London" No
wares could be brought into Windsor,
or even through the town; any one
who tried to bring goods by river did
SO upon pain of hanging without any
judgment, and those who received
such goods were turned out and their
houses shut up.
Thus it will be seen hat those af-
nicted simply had to stay shut up
WITHIN doors to die or get well, as for
tune served them. Even for those
VINO could afford it there was little in
the way of medical attention to be
had.
mere were the pest houses, GER
'alnly, and there evidently surgeons
and physicians did their best for the
victims. One of these, William King,
surgeon to the pest house, is heard OF
as petitioning for pension in 1911 on
account of Ibis great care and dill
sence in curing such persons as have
peen sent thither." Because he had
peen working there none Of his former
patients would employ him. and he
can scarcely have been recompensed
properly for the loss of his practice
ny grant of e3 per annum.
Cholera In Russia.
according to recent reports received
al the French ministry of the interior,
cnolera is finding its way from Russia
20 france. condition OF things re-
sponsible for considerable anxiety.
russia is particularly plagued by the
ulead disease. as well as by others
chiehy, 1t is argued, because of the in
sanitary. overcrowded lodgings OF tho
poor and the average peasants indif-
lerent food. 1t is pointed out, for ex-
ample that In certain Of the small
.a'ihs houses of the capital and of
moSco~ number of people will eat
uu' OF the same dish. while some Of
ue lodging houses frequented at night
ny nose who can afford to pay but
lew hapence for accommodation are
uir'y IN the extreme-as foul that is
W say as the clothes of their inmates.
- he working classes, it may be noted.
aiVe on cabbage soup, a sour rye-bread,
a sou, cucumbers and sour milk. The
90 looked upon as something
1uN ury-in the towns at all
y. LIS lhere were 2l6.O91 cases Of