Black Death

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 November 1924, Page 5

Black Death

PNEUMONIC PLAGUE AT LOS ANGELES. TWELVE DEATHS. OTHERS HOPELESSLY ILL. (Received 3, 11.5 a.m.) New York, Nov. 1. A Los Angeles despatch says that the Black Death, which swent London in the fifteenth century is believed to have broken out there. A Mexican woman died recently apparently from pneumonia and seven teen attended her funeral. Twelve ot them are now dead, and physicians sa th© remainder cannot survive. Three nf these never entered the house of th. first victim. The greatest consternation prevailed <nd autopsies were rushed though. The city health officer,' reporting on the diagnosis, said:—lt i s definitely established that the ailment is pneu monic plague, a very terrible, disease »n the form of double pneumonia. Boil, lungs become infected and the tempera tufe goes to a high mark. Death follows swiftly. ■ generally within foi>» days after the. disease first appears The mortality is very high. We fee l that of the seventeen. Mexicans th*' total deaths will be 10() per cent. “Armed guards have been placed around the districts in which the victims resided. The. dead have beeplaced in an isolated ward. The pneumonic plague is the same disease which Httuck London in thfe fifteenth century We do not know how it originated.”— cA. and N.Z.)