The Plague

in

Egypt.

and

Egypt possess an interassociation; and "the plague" esting has frequently found in that country a congenial soil. The present outbreak appears to have The words

plague

historical

encountered unwonted obstructions. these

are

due to

season or

improved

Whether

sanitation

or

it is difficult to say. The disease made its appearance in Alexandria

vigorous repressive

and up to the 5th July only fiftyoccurred with twentj'-one deaths. How it reached Alexandria is unknown, and so The refar it has not appeared elsewhere.

early

seven

in

measures

May,

cases

which have been emplo}Ted isolation of the sick in hospitals, and of persons who have been exposed to infection in camps and evacuation and dis-

pressive

measures

have been

DISEASES

Sept. 1899.1

OF THE GUMS.

infection of houses.

As in India, concealment and deaths lias been resorted to in order to avoid troublesome interference with personal of

cases

liberty and domestic arrangements. of agents and doctors

by

the

has, however,

Sanitary authority,

ment appears to have to

good

purpose.

A

large

been

staff

engaged

and this establish-

been handled

vigorously

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