First Report of the North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service

The Outbreak of Rat-Plague in Suffolk and the Manchurian Epidemic of Human Plague

Ahout a year ago there appeared in the January number of " Public Health" an extremely interesting article by Dr. Pringle on the outbreak of rat-plague in Suffolk, interesting not only on account of the recorded facts with which it deals, but still more so on account of the largeness and the gravity of the future possibilities. The gravit}' of the possibilities depends upon the fact that it see...

The first report of Asterodiscides fourmanoiri (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the North Coast of Oman Sea, Iran

Echinoderms with around 7,000 species can be found at all depths of the marine ecosystems. Body shape is radially symmetrical, covered by calcareous plates and five body parts are around a central axis. The class of Asteroidea (also known as starfish or sea star) is one of the most diverse groups within the phylum Echinodermata, including nearly 1900 extant species grouped into 36 families, and...

Richard Pearson Strong and the Manchurian epidemic of pneumonic plague, 1910-1911.

HE Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and famine afflicted the Central Provinces. The Manchurian plague claimed some fifty thousand lives in four months, and the famine took thousands more. Not all the hungry died, but no on...

The Plague Commission's Report

The head-quarters of the working Commission is the Plague Research Laboratory, at Parel, the resources of which were placed at its disposal by Lieutenant-Colonel Bannerman, the Director. Since the departure of Dr. Martin from India, the direction of the Commission has been in the capable hands of Major G. Lamb. The work so far undertaken b}^ the Commission includes epidemiological observations ...

Plague Prevention in Nagpur