Plague In India Research Articles

XXXIX. Interim Report of the Advisory Committee for Plague Investigation in India

The following statement embodies the chief conclusions which have been provisionally reached by the Advisory Committee as the result of the investigations made under their direction from 1905—1909 into the mode of spread of plague in India.

The Position of Plague in India as Illustrated at the Bombay Medical Congress.

The Position of Plague in India as Illustrated at the Bombay Medical Congress.

XXXI. On the seasonal prevalence of plague in India

1. Both in Bombay city and in the Amritsar district of the Punjab there is a distinct seasonal variation in the number of rat fleas.2. In these places this seasonal variation of rat fleas corresponds directly in a general way with the plague mortality. During the season when plague is epidemic the average number of fleas per rat is above the mean, while during the non-epidemic season it is below the mean. The height of the epidemic corresponds fairly closely with the season of maximum flea prevalence.

Plague in India.

Plague in India.

Plague in India — Report of the Carney Hospital for 1906 — Final Statistics of July Fourth — Medical Notes

Plague in India — Report of the Carney Hospital for 1906 — Final Statistics of July Fourth — Medical Notes

WESTERN MEDICINE AND PLAGUE IN INDIA.

WESTERN MEDICINE AND PLAGUE IN INDIA.

Plague Prevention in India

HIS MAJESTY'S recent letter on this subject to the Government of India was well designed to stimulate the Government to more active efforts against the disease, but has been followed by pronouncements from it which do not suggest any strong hope that that object will be attained, in these pronouncements the Government of India issues advice to the heads of local administrations regarding the methods of dealing with plague—a familiar matter; but, as the Pioneer Mail of August 23 remarks:—“Nothing is said about finding the money for the proper carrying out of these recommendations.” There is, moreover, another defect which suggests further doubts. The whole of the edict is filled with injunctions to avoid “any action which excites the opposition of the people.” Now as almost every sanitary action, from cleansing the back yard upwards, does excite the opposition of a large percentage of the people, this policy means, I fear, not the advancement, but the abandonment of any large-scale operations against plague in India.

The Plague in India.

The Plague in India.

The Plague in India.

The Plague in India.

On the Date of Appearance and Duration of Bacillus Pestis in the Peripheral Blood of Cases of Bubonic Plague in India

On the Date of Appearance and Duration of Bacillus Pestis in the Peripheral Blood of Cases of Bubonic Plague in India

The spread of Plague in India

Since the publication of the Indian Plague Commission in 1901, with the exception of a short paper by Hankin (1905), comparatively little has been published in scientific journals dealing with the spread of plague in India from an epidemiological view-point. Not that this has been lost sight of in India, for there are many very valuable reports in existence in the archives of the various local Governments, containing most interesting observations made by officers of the Indian Medical Service who have dealt personally with the epidemics; but as these reports are, in the nature of things, not available for reference by the public, it has been thought advisable and useful to compile a digest of them for publication.

The Prevalence of Plague in India.

The Prevalence of Plague in India.

Plague in India.

Plague in India.

The Spread of Plague in India

The Spread of Plague in India

Recent Reports on Plague in India

Recent Reports on Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India

The Plague in India