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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
Plague was introduced into Queensland from Sydney in 1900, and every subsequent year has been marked by an outbreak in Brisbane. In both towns the authorities are unsparing in their efforts to eradicate the factors contributing to its maintenance, but in both places the infection of the rats and their haunts is so extensive that the disease may now be looked upon as endemic in the two cities. The probabilities are, however, that the pest will be harder to eradicate in Sydney, where the buildings are substantially built, and not as in Brisbane light structures of wood which more easily lend themselves to treatment and are comparatively temporary in their character.
page 314 note 1 Houses are built on piles to protect them from the ravages of white ants.
page 315 note 1 Deutsche med. Wochenschr. Jan. 1902.Google Scholar
page 315 note 2 Bandi and Balistreri, Zeitschrift für Hygiene, 1898, XXVIII. p. 261.Google Scholar
page 316 note 1 Cf, Kolle and Martini, Deutsche med. Wochenschr. Jan. 23rd, 1902, and Indian Plague Commission Reports.Google Scholar
page 317 note 1 Kitasato, Hankin, Leuman.
page 317 note 2 Queensland State Health Report, 1903.
page 325 note 1 Note: My method of making the smear was (all precautions were taken to eliminate possible contamination) to obtain very thin smears from the patient's blood by Cole's method. In a private communication from Dr Bell in which he furnishes further results he informs me that he works with very thick smears which he decolorises. It is a matter of gratification that we have obtained similar results with diverse methods.
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