The Plague at Pekin
One Thousand Deaths Occur Inside Six Weeks.
A brief dispatch reporting a devastating plague outbreak in China alongside a smallpox scare aboard an American warship — a stark reminder of the disease conditions accompanying foreign military occupation.
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Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Page 1
1 min readPekin, April 11.
Robert W. McWade, United States consul at Canton, China, reports that 1,000 deaths from the plague have occurred there during the past six weeks and that there are 13 cases of smallpox on board the United States monitor Monterey. Only one death has resulted on the Monterey, and the other cases of smallpox are progressing favorably.
The meetings of the foreign ministers at Pekin have been postponed at the request of M. de Giers on account of the Easter holidays.
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