A treatise on plague : dealing with the historical, epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic and preventive aspects of the disease / by W. J. Simpson.

  • Simpson, W. J. (William John), Sir, 1855-1931.
Date:
1905
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    CJIAPTEH VI 1.1. PAGE VARIATION IN VIRULENCE OF PLAGUE EPIDEMICS .... 159 Variation in virulence.—Mild epidemic of plague at Astrakhan and Vet- lianka.—The Vetlianka outbreak suddenly acquires great virulence.—Early malignity of the Avignon epidemic of 1348, with its pneumonic symptoms followed by a loss malignant type. Different types with varying degrees of virulence may be seen running concurrently or following one another in the same epidemic.—Four different types of plague in the Pali epidemic of 1836.—Five degrees of severity noted in the Marseilles epidemic of 1720.—Three degrees of severity observed in the Russian epidemic of 1771.—An Aura Pestilentiae noticed in the Egyptian epidemic of 1834-35.—Three degrees of severity in the Egyptian epidemic of 1834-35.—Sporadic cases of mild plague may precede severe epidemics of plague, or they may bridge over the intervals of epidemics.—The import of glandular swellings before and after plague prevalence.—Presence and absence of certain symptoms in different epidemics.—Extraordinary and coloured sweats in the plague of London.—Plague may increase in virulence if it appears in the same locality in successive years. Variation in the virulence of the disease dependent on conditions to which the microbe and those attacked are exposed.—Natural immunity.—Plague commits its greatest ravages on people subjected to depressing influences. White people have a fairly uniform mortality from plague wherever they may be attacked.—Susceptible races may become less susceptible out of their own country.—Susceptibility may vary in the same race in different localities. —Variety of type is seen in all infectious diseases. CHAPTER IX. FOSTERING CONDITIONS OF ENDEMICITY AND EPIDEMICITY . . 176 Discrimination between recrudescence and endemicity.—Endemic centres.— Kurdistan.—Kumaon and Garhwal.—Characteristics of the outbreaks.— Poverty of the inhabitants, exceptionally insanitary houses and close as- sociation of animals and men.—Dr Francis' description of the houses.—Dr Planch's description of the houses.—Conditions in Yunnan.—Conditions in Aasyr, Fostering conditions of plague prevalence similar in exotic localities to those in endemic centres.—Paris in the 17th century.—Oporto in the 19th century. -Canton in the 19th and 20th centuries. -Hongkong in the 19th and 20th centuries.—Bombay in 1896.—The chawls of Bombay.—The crowded buildings in Mandvi. The Jains and their indifference to death.— A scene in a Bombay building.—Mortality in the Bombay outbreak of 1896-97 small owing to preventive measures.—The three conditions in city of Bombay observed by experts.—Notes of a morning's inspection in Bombay.—Cape Town.—Plague chiefly a disease of the poor.—A Chineso village.—Macao.— Conclusion.