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Clerkenwell 1900

Report on the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of Clerkenwell [West Division, Borough of Finsbury] for the year 1900

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who, having been possibly exposed to Plague, exhibit these symptoms, should be
isolated and watched medically until the nature of their malady has been
definitely ascertained.
Diagnosis—
"The sudden onset, the marked prostration, the mental aberration, the
"splitting headache, vomiting and nausea, backache, the rise in temperature, the
"furred tongue, when taken in conjunction with tenderness and pain in some one
"of the groups of glands are sufficient to indicate the necessity for a speedy
" microscopic search for the plague bacillus."—Cantlie.
Amongst white people attacked with Plague in India about
30-40 per cent die. Amongst the natives the percentage of fatality
is much higher.*
* Some of the above particulars appeared in the Local Government Board
memorandum issued in October, 1900. All particulars concerning the examination
of suspected cases of plague may be obtained at the Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Rosebery Avenue, E.C.