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venait d'envoyer a Lille le Dr. Calmette qui allait, 

 en quelques mois, creer de toutes pieces un nouvel 

 et admirable Institut Pasteur. Le Dr. Yersin en 

 Chine continuait sa mission. Un normalien, entre 

 des seize ans le premier a la grande Ecole et devenu 

 preparateur au laboratoire, M. Le Dantec, etait au 

 Bresil ou il etudiait la fievre jaune dont il faillit 

 mourir. Le Dr. Adrien Loir, apres une longue 

 mission en Australie, dirigeait un Institut Pasteur 

 a Tunis. Le Dr. Nicolle organisait un laboratoire 

 de bacteriologie a Constantinople. Ah! que de 

 choses encore d faire ! disait Pasteur d'une voix 

 affaiblie en serrant afFectueusement la main de 

 M. Roux." 



From the discovery of the cause of plague, came 

 the discovery of the transmission of plague, by 

 rat-fleas, from rats to man. 



The Transmission of Plague* 



Plague, after long absence from India, flared up 

 in Bombay, in October, 1896. It is estimated that 

 20,000 died in 9 months : 



" The scenes witnessed by those whose business 

 took them to the plague-infested parts of the city 

 were heartrending beyond description. Streets 

 deserted, whole families found dead with no record 



* For general study of this subject, it would be hard to 

 find a better guide than the pamphlet Plague in India, Past 

 and Present : A Contrast, by Surgeon-General Bannerman, 

 I.M.S., Director of the Plague Research Laboratory of 

 the Government of India. Issued by the Research Defence 

 Society, 1910. 



