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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/80848| Title: | Disinfection : part 9 : letters and other documents written on wood during the plague epidemic of Malta in 1813 |
| Authors: | Bonnici, Alfred |
| Keywords: | Plague, Malta, 1813-1814 Public health posters -- Malta -- History -- 19th century Paper -- Disinfection -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 1986-08 |
| Publisher: | Malta Philatelic Society |
| Citation: | Bonnici, A. (1986). Disinfection : part 9 : letters and other documents written on wood during the plague epidemic of Malta in 1813. The PSM magazine, 15(2), 9-13. |
| Abstract: | The plague bacillus "Bacillus Pestis" was discovered independently by Kitasto and Yersin during the epidemic at Hong Kong in 1894 (1) and the Advisory Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India in 1905 · established that infection was by means of the bites of fleas transmitting the bacilli from infected rodents. eg. rats. (2). Up till 1905 it was believed that plague was a "Contagious" disease, conveyed from a sick person to another by touching the patients body, or his belongings or by the handling of infected material. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/80848 |
| Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 1986 - 15(2) |
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