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The Plague in England

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 8.

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The Plague in England

The Plague in England.— Under date of January 30 a despatch from Washington to the Woman's National Daily declares that advices from London state that the dreaded bubonic plague is decidedly established in that country. Rats all over the island are believed to be infected, but it is thought that many men, women, and children have died of the dread malady since as far back as 1896, supposed at the time to be pneumonia, and cases among human beings are increasing steadily. One correspondent, vouched for by the London Times, declares, "We shall never entirely succeed in ridding England of this plague." One of the most serious features is that it has assumed a pneumonic form, by which the plague is carried on the breath, even at a considerable distance.