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Part IV. Experiments in plague houses in Bombay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

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Animals protected from fleas by means of a sufficiently broad layer of “tangle-foot” and placed in plague-infected houses do not contract plague, but the control animals, not so protected, on several occasions (24 per cent.) developed the disease. Out of 247 fleas caught on the “tangle-foot,” 60 p.c. were human, 34 p.c. were rat and 6 p.c. were cat fleas. Plague-like bacilli were demonstrated in the stomach contents of one out of 85 human fleas dissected, and of 23 out of 77 rat fleas.

Type
I. Experiments upon the transmission of plague by fleas
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 6 , Issue 4: Extra “Plague Number” , September 1906 , pp. 467 - 482
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

References

page 469 note 1 vide supra, p. 430.

page 478 note 1 Tangle-foot is a sticky resinous preparation used for catching flies.