Transmit for Your Lordship's information 6 copies of a "Preliminary notice of the Bacillus of Bubonic Plague" by Professor Kitasato.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord Marquess,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
William Robinson
PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF THE BACILLUS OF BUBONIC PLAGUE,
BY
Professor S. KITASATO.
HONGKONG, July 7th, 1894.
Early this year (1894) an epidemic of Bubonic Plague broke out in the South of China and Canton, from which city the disease was imported into the neighbouring island of Hongkong, where it has prevailed from the beginning of May until now.
The Imperial Japanese Government sent a Commission to Hongkong in order to study the Plague, especially as regards its bacteriological character and its pathological and clinical features. The pathology and medicine were the special study of Professor Aoyama and the bacteriological part received the care of the author. Having left Japan 5th June, 1894, we arrived at Hongkong on the 12th of the same month. Here Dr. Lowson, Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, put everything needful at our disposal in the most friendly spirit. A room in the Kennedy Town Hospital (one of the Plague Establishments) was given to us, and there we began our work on the 14th of June last.
On that day, we were able to see a post-mortem examination, performed by Professor Aoyama. I found numerous bacilli in the bubo (in this case a swelling of the inguinal glands) in the
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transmit for Your Lordship's information 6 copies of a "Preliminary notice of the "Bacillus of Bubonic Plague H by Professor Kitasato.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Will in Robingoy
PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF THE BACILLUS OF BUBONIC PLAGUE,
BY
Professor S. KITASATO.
HONGKONG, July 7th, 1894.
Early this year (1894) an epidemic of Bubonic Plague broke out in the South of China and Canton, from which city the disease was imported into the neighbouring island of Hougkong, where it has prevailed from the beginning of May until now.
The Imperial Japanese Government sent a Commission to Hongkong in order to study the Plague, especially as regards its bacteriological character and its pathological and clinical features. The pathology and medicine were the special study of Professor Aoyama and the bacteriological part received the care of the author, Having left Japan 5th June, 1894, we arrived at Hongkong on the 12th of the same month. Here Dr. Lowson, Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, put everything needful at our disposal in the most friendly spirit. A room in the Kennedy Town Hospital (one of the Plague Establishments) was given to us, and there we began our work
on the 14th of June last.
On that day, we were able to see a post mortem examina- tion, performed by Professor Aoyama. I found numerous bacilli in the bubo (in this case a swelling of the inguinal glands) in the
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