Report of the Board of Health on a second outbreak of plague at Sydney, 1902 / by J. Ashburton Thompson.
- Thompson, J. Ashburton (John Ashburton), 1848-1915.
- Date:
- 1903
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Board of Health on a second outbreak of plague at Sydney, 1902 / by J. Ashburton Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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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 17th 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 became infected. Circumstances surrounding 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 probability, by casual contact with deposited infection. Ecto-parasites of the Rat, by Dr. Frank Tidswell. Conclusion. APPENDIX. [Twenty-eight Tables. Four Diagrams. Two Plates.] 19354](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31353046_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
