PLAGUE IN JAPAN

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2219, 28 May 1929, Page 6

PLAGUE IN JAPAN

WAR GAINST FLEAS MARMOTS IN GREAT DEMAND Thy discovery of a easy of plague in Osaka, in Japan, following a similar discovery iu Kobe, is causing grave concern.- Marmots, arc being used to catch Jleas on board ships, and their market pricy is reported to have risen threefold. ' ; Every illness reported in thy district and on board ship arouses fresh anxieties. The plague occurred on a cotton ship which arrived from Bombay. Thy oilicial theory of the manner of infection is that all tlie. crew went ashore except the victim, on whom thy lleas concentrated their attack. A vigorous campaign of disinfection has been carried out. followed by Jleaca(jelling operations. .Marmots are let loos e on the ships, rec;inght and examined for lleas and lJi,. lleas are examined for plague.