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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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districts would have to be burned. As has been remarked above, the zinc fences prevent the escape ofrats during the work of disinfection and their effectiveness in segregatingan entire area before an epidemic becomes general has been abundantlyillustrated during the outbreaks in Yokohama, Kobe, and Tokyo. Thesewalls present a most peculiar appearance. Their height varies accordingto the circumstances, but usually it is about three feet, with a foot or two COMBATING PLAGUE IN JAPAN. 613 buried in the ground. Rats can neither climb such a wall, nor burrowunder it. The use of zinc for such a purpose is apparent, for it is notliable to rust as are other metals, and it may be used repeatedly. Thesewalls have been utilized during every epidemic, the largest one being con-structed in Tokyo in 1903. In this instance the area inclosed was three-fourths of a mile square, with partitions dividing it into several sections.In addition, every other place where infected rats were found was inclosed
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Fig. 8.—Female patient. Infection of the eyes with pest bacillus (fatal ease).Primary lesion, right eye; secondary lesion, left eye. within other fences and the total length of the walls so used measured29,148 feet, or about four miles. The discovery of a case suspected of having plague is promptly fol-lowed by the proper measures to prevent further spreading of the disease.Inspecting physicians hurry to the patients residence and, if he reallyproves to be attacked by the pest, the victim is at once conveyed either toa hospital for infectious diseases or to one of isolation where proper 614 itltASAtO. treatment can be given. Should a dead body be discovered infected withthe plague bacillus, the cadaver is first disinfected externally and thencremated. Each member of the family and the contacts in the neighbor-hood are then sent to an isolated detention dormitory, where they aregiven a daily examination during their term of quarantine. They aresubjected to all possible means of disin

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