Plague: A Manual for Medical and Public Health Workers

It has remained for these workers in China to furnish probably the most comprehensive survey of plague in any language, certainly the most satisfactory in English. The work is a thoroughly modern treatise on the subject, mentioning even the focus of rodent plague that was discovered only in 1935 in Montana. The book, as might be expected, is particularly full on the history of the disease in China, although the authors reject the view, so often expressed, that the province of Yunnan is an endemic focus. A list of Chinese epidemics going as far back as 224 B. C. is given. Among pioneer workers are listed S. B. Grubbs and the late J. J. Kinyoun, both of the U. S. Public Health Service, the former for his ship ratproofing work and the latter for his work in California in 1900. The highly controversial question as to the discovery of the