VIII, B, 3 Teague: Spread of Pneumonic Plague 243 



Rau * has described a small epidemic of pneumonic plague at 

 Santa Maria in the southern part of Brazil. For four years 

 isolated cases of bubonic plague had occurred in Santa Maria at 

 intervals of weeks or months. On July 21, 1912, there suddenly 

 appeared a case of pneumonic plague w^hich was followed in the 

 course of the next three weeks by 17 other cases, all ending 

 fatally. 



It is worthy of note that these pneumonic cases occurred during 

 the cool season and that the houses in Santa Maria are not heated 

 artificially. (Personal communication from Doctor Rau.) 



Next to Harbin, Changchun suffered most during the epidemic. 

 After Doctor Tang had made the observations here recorded for 

 Harbin, he was sent by Doctor Wu to Changchun, where he noted 

 the temperatures recorded in Table H, 



* Deutsche med. Wochenschr. (1912), 38, 2314. 



