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Title: Handbook of medical entomology
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Riley, William Albert, 1876- Johannsen, Oskar Augustus, 1870-1961 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insect pests Insects as carriers of disease Medical parasitology
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., The Comstock publishing company
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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at historical novel,The Betrothed has well pictured conditions in Italy during thisperiod. In modem times the plague is confined primarily to warm climates,a condition which has been brought about largely through generalimprovement in sanitary conditions. At present, the hotbed of the disease is India, where there were1,040,429 deaths in 1904 and where in a period of fifteen years,ending with January 1912, there were over 15,000,000 deaths. Thereported deaths in that country for 1913 totaled 198,875. During the winter of 1910-11 there occurred in Manchuria andNorth China a virulent epidemic of the pneumonic plague whichcaused the death of nearly 50,000 people. The question as to itsorigin and means of spread will be especially referred to later. Until recent years, the plague had not been known to occur inthe New World but there were outbreaks in Brazil and Hawaii in1899, and in 1900 there occurred the first cases in San Francisco. i68 Arthropods as Direct Inoculators of Disease Germs
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u^ O .2 o 3 o a C Role of Fleas in the Transmission of Plague 169 In California there were 125 cases in the period 1900-04; three casesin the next three years and then from May 1907 to March 1908,during the height of the outbreak, 170 cases. Since that time therehave been only sporadic cases, the last case reported being in May1914. Still more recent were the outbreaks in the Philippine Islands,Porto Rico, and Cuba. On June 24, 1914, there was recognized a case of human plaguein New Orleans. The Federal Health Service immediately tookcharge, and measures for the eradication of the disease were vigor-ously enforced. Up to Otcober 10, 1914 there had been reported30 cases of the disease in man, and iSi cases of plague in rats. IHP

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