THE recent appearance of plague in East Suffolk forms the subject of some valuable reports and papers recently issued by the medical department of the Local Government Board. The reports are divided into three sections, each of which deals with the plague from different aspects. The first section contains the late Dr. Bulstrode's “report upon the occurrence, in the autumn of 1910, of four deaths at Freston, near Ipswich, from a rapidly fatal and infectious malady diagnosed as pneumonic plague, and upon the prevalence of plague in rodents in Suffolk and Essex.” It also includes his report upon two localised outbreaks of disease in East Suffolk in 1909-10 and 1906-7, which may have been instances of bubonic and pneumonic plague respectively.” The second section records the results of an inquiry by Drs. Martin and Roland, in the months of November and December, 1910, into rat plague in East Anglia, with special reference to the fleas infesting rodents; and the third section gives a report by Drs. Petrie and Macalister “upon the examination of rats collected in Suffolk and Essex for plague-infection between January 16 and February 14, 1911.”