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A Report on the Outbreak of the Plague in Colombo. 1914—1916

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W. M. Philip  and
L. F. Hirst
W. M. Philip
Affiliation:
Medical Officer of Health, Colombo; formerly Lecturer on Public Health, Ceylon Medical College.
L. F. Hirst
Affiliation:
Bacteriologist, City of Colombo; formerly Assistant Bacteriologist, University College Hospital, and Medical School; Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps.
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Although plague broke out in India in 1896, it was not until a period of 18 years had elapsed that it reached Ceylon, notwithstanding the close proximity and the daily intercourse which takes place between the two countries. It is not surprising that this prolonged immunity, coupled with the example of the failure of the disease to thrive in such places as Madras, Singapore and other maritime towns within the tropical belt, should have created in the minds of the public in Colombo a feeling of considerable security as regards invasion by this disease, and that when it was announced that plague had at last broken out, there was the usual scepticism expressed as to the accuracy of the diagnosis. The advent of plague in Ceylon has already been announced by Castellani and Philip (1914).

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , February 1917 , pp. 527 - 564
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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