Report on the outbreak of plague at Sydney [1900-1907] / by J. Ashburton Thompson, Chief Medical Officer of the Government and President of the Board of Health.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- 1900-1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Report on the outbreak of plague at Sydney [1900-1907] / by J. Ashburton Thompson, Chief Medical Officer of the Government and President of the Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![CONTENTS. PREFACE. Part I.-THE EPIDEMIC. Management of the Epidemic. Progress of the Epidemic. Communication between successive cases. Evidence as to Place Infection. Origin of the Epidemic. The case of the s.s. Antillian. The case of the barque Eulomene. Part II.—THE MODE OF SPREAD. Sub-division of the affected District into areas. South-Central area. Evidence of diffusion of the Infection. The Paddington Sub-epidemic. South-Central area resumed. Chippendale area. Alexandria and Waterloo area. Survey of the general results of the search for rats over the whole of the affected district down to nth February. Darling Harbour area. Central area. General survey of the remaining areas. Camperdown area. Description of a single indigenous case at Newtown. Plague at the Zoological Garden. Description of a single indigenous case at the City of Newcastle. Distribution of cases among plague-houses. Circumstances under which fifteen secondary cases liccame infected. Circumstances surroundmg the infection of four groups of persons associated solely by resort to the same premises. Part III.—THE EPIZOOTIC IN RELATION TO THE EPIDEMIC. Introductory. Time and place relations. Notes on general experience with the Epizootic. Species of rats affected. Mode of Infection. Further observations on the Mode of Infection, by Dr. Frank Tidswell. Twelve cases in which the Infection was not taken, in all probabilitj-, by casual contact with dej^osited infection. Ecto-parasites of the Rat, by Dr. Frank Tidswell. Conclusion. APPENDIX. [Twenty-eight Tables. Pour Diagrams. Two Plates.] 19354](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21354704_0117.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
