Identifier: plagueitscausem00jack (find matches)
Title: Plague; its cause and the manner of its extension, its menace, its control and suppression, its diagnosis and treatment
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Wright, 1869- Schöbl, Otto
Subjects: Plague Rats as carriers of disease
Publisher: (Philadelphia) J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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y trade but out of work at time he wastaken sick, recently removed to this house from 917 C.Jaboneros where he had been employed. The patientfixes the date at about a week previous to his sickness, butthe proprietors of 917 Jaboneros are positive in theirstatement that he left the place where he lived arid worked,at least two weeks before. This boy recovered. The circumstances and especially the occurrenceof a second case at 1226 C. Juan Luna, indicatethat infection was incurred here. Moreover, this house is in the midst of a rat-plague infected district. The house is of bamboo and nipa constructionand contained illegal basement rooms until a weekago. About 60 persons lived in this house whichwas once licensed as a tenement but which is un-sanitary in a multitude of ways. Bamboo construc-tion, overcrowding, dirty condition and absence ofproper drainage, water-closet, proper kitchens andpaved ground floors, together with bad ventilation,made it a dangerous habitation and the added con-
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ITS CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION 117 dition of plague infection made it necessary tovacate and quarantine the building. On May 15, at the daily inspection of contactsin the house 1226 C. Juan Luna, Filomena Sunga,aged nineteen, and a relative of the owner of thebuilding, was found to be sick. Her only symptomwas fever, but she was transferred to San Lazaroupon suspicion and promptly developed symptomsof plague. She died in a few days and the diagnosisof plague was verified at autopsy. The followingorder was issued: Station C, Tondo, Bureau of Health, Manila, P. I., May 15, 1913.By order of the Director of Health, the house No. 1226C. Juan Luna is declared infected and is quarantined thisdate, for Bubonic Plague. The house will be vacated anda policeman will register the names of all residents andthe addresses to which they remove. The residents may remove their personal effects butwill not be permitted to return while the quarantine is in effect- (Signed) T. W. Jackson, Medical Inspector,

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