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Identifier: interstatemedica1419unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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ch plague frequently haunts,so that inspections are made at the places from which vessels clear. I be-lieve preventive measures against plague to be the most urgent need ofthe age, but in order to be of permanent good they must include, as is thecase with the United States, not only temporary means for preventing theintrusion of the disease to be enforced at the ports of entry, but also COMBATING PLAGUE IN JAPAN. 607 medical officials to be stationed in infected regions, at which points anyvessels starting for the country in question can be strictly examined. Iam of the opinion that it would be advisable to place such officials atIndian and South China ports to which the plague outbreaks in Japanhave been traced. In combating plague, the quarantine of ports, however strict andcomplete it may be, can not safely be relied upon and for this reasongeneral provision throughout the country must be perfected against in-fectious diseases. As plague can not be classified with the ordinary ones
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Fig. 5.—Bacteriological laboratory of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Board. Exami-nation of rats for pest infection. of this class, the regulations to meet such emergencies in Japan were foundin general to be unsuitable, so that the Government was compelled to re-model them in order to meet the condition. The principal features of thenew regulations are as follows: 1. Authority for disinfection, isolation, and quarantine is given.Measures looking to the prevention of the disease are to be enforced notonly against the living patients and in respect to the houses and furnitureoccupied and used by those actually stricken with plague, as well as ofthose who are only suspected of having the infection, but also in regardto the bodies of those dead with plague. 2. To prevent the spread of the infection, as many rats as possibleare to be killed. 608 KITASATO. 3. The period of isolation of suspected patients is not to be less thanten days. These modified regulations were based upon the experi

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