LONDON LETTER. THE PLAGUE IN VIENNA.

The outbreak of plague which took place at Vienna last month has attracted great attention. It appears that the Austrian Commission which visited Bombay last year for the purpose of plague brought back with them

investigating

cultivations of the bacillus with which

experiments have been been

in

kept

an

made.

The

sundry organism has

active condition, and

a

labora-

tory attendant named Barisch somehow?probably from incautious handling of the material

while in a state of intoxication?inhaled some of it and took ill with symptoms of pneumonia Cultivations from the on the 15th of October. and inoculation of rats with the same

sputum

made and at first gave negative results, but eventually typical colonies of the plague bacillus were

were

produced

blood of

one

both from

sputum

and from the

of the inoculated rats. Barisch died He was attended

on

the 18th of October.

Dr.

Mueller, who sickened

by

on

the 21st of October,

and died the next night. A nurse, named Pecha, contracted the disease on the 20th, and died on Elaborate isolation and disinfection precautions were adopted, and up to the present time no further case has occurred. The outthe 30th.

break may,

therefore,

be considered to be at an a fresh interest in the

end, but it has aroused

subject

of

plague.

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