The history of plague in Australia, 1900-1925 / by J.H.L. Cumpston and F. McCallum

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Cumpston, J. H. L. (John Howard Lidgett), 1880-1954
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HISTORY OF PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA 1
HISTORY OF PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA 3
PREFACE. 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 7
INTRODUCTORY. 11
PART I. CHAPTER I.—THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF PLAGUE INTO AUSTRALIA. 17
CHAPTER II.—PLAGUE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 20
CHAPTER III.—PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND. 29
CHAPTER IV—PLAGUE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 35
CHAPTER V.—PLAGUE IN VICTORIA. 38
CHAPTER VI.-PLAGUE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 39
CHAPTER VII.—IMMUNITY OF TASMANIA. 43
CHAPTER VIII.—THE COURSE OF PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA, 1900-1909. 45
CHAPTER IX.—EPIZOOTIC PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA. 49
APTER X.—THE EPIZOOTIC IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 50
CHAPTER XI.-EPIZOOTIC PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND. 65
CHAPTER XII.—EPIZOOTIC PLAGUE IN VICTORIA. 70
CHAPTER XIII.—EPIZOOTIC PLAGUE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 71
CHAPTER XIV.—EPIZOOTIC PLAGUE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 72
CHAPTER XV.—EPIZOOTIC PLAGUE IN TASMANIA. 74
CHAPTER XVI.—PLAGUE ON SHIPBOARD, 1900-1909. 75
CHAPTER XVII.-THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EPIZOOTIC AND EPIDEMIC PLAGUE. 84
CHAPTER XVIII.-SOME DIFFICULTIES OF PLAGUE INVESTIGATION. 99
CHAPTER XIX.—RAT DESTRUCTION. 105
CHAPTER XX.-SPECIES OF RATS WHICH ARE NATURALLY FOUND PLAGUE-INFECTED. 106
CHAPTER XXI.—SPECIES OF FLEAS CONCERNED IN PLAGUE TRANSMISSION. 110
CHAPTER XXII.-INFLUENCE OF SEASON ON THE OCCURRENCE OF PLAGUE. 112
PART II.—THE INTER-EPIDEMIC PERIOD, 1910-1920 117
CHAPTER XXIV. 127
CHAPTER XXV.—PLAGUE IN OVERSEA COUNTRIES. 135
PART III—PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA, 1921-1922. 137
CHAPTER XXVII.—THE SPREAD WITHIN THE CITY OF BRISBANE. 143
CHAPTER XXVIII.-PLAGUE AT TOWNSVILLE. 153
CHAPTER XXIX.-PLAGUE AT CAIRNS. 157
CHAPTER XXX.—PLAGUE IN OTHER PLACES IN QUEENSLAND. 159
CHAPTER XXXI.—PLAGUE IN SYDNEY. 161
CHAPTER XXXII.—THE INTRODUCTION OF PLAGUE INTO SYDNEY. 185
CHAPTER XXXIII.-IMMUNITY OF OTHER PARTS OF AUSTRALIA. 188
CHAPTER XXXIV.-PLAGUE ON SHIPBOARD 1921-1922. 189
CHAPTER XXXV.—SOME EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE 1921-1922 OUTBREAK. 195
CHAPTER XXXVI—THE SPREAD OF PLAGUE. 207
CHAPTER XXXVII.—FUMIGATION OF VESSELS. 214
PART IV.-THE PERIOD, 1923-1925. 217
APPENDICES. 222
APPENDIX B. Commonwealth and States of Australia Conference on Plague, Sydney, 1921. 225
Practical Results of the Resolutions of the Conference, 1921. 233
APPENDIX C. Epidemiological Records of Plague Outbreaks. 235
APPENDIX D. Bibliography of Plague in Australia. 238

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