1911

(Registered at the General Post Office, Brisbane, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper) Bubonic plague comeback
The bubonic plague variety is carried by fleas from rodents to humans, but does nototherwise pass from person to person; before these facts were established by bacteriological science and before the emergence of antibiotics, this plague, most famously associated with thefourteenthcentury Black Death, proved lethal for about 60 per cent of its victims. Swift to spread through an infected organism, and potentially fatal even with modern medical intervention, septicaemic plaguewould count as the most dangerous form were it to constitute an epidemic in itself, rather than a complication liable to accompany the bubonic or the pneumonic kind. That last, an extreme type of lunginfection, highly contagious and still impossible to cure unless identified within the first twenty-four hours, is the rarest as well as the deadliest form of a plague epidemic. The Manchurianoutbreak in the autumn of 1910 was the worst such epidemic in recorded history.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15th, 1911.

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radium and plutonium. Despite the death of her husband and partner in anunfortunate street accident, she carried on with her research in solitary and got where no one had before. She refused the state pension that the French governor had offered her to support herself andher children, claiming that she was perfectly able to take care of them without any help. And she actually has proved to be a successful and brilliant woman. Probably now the French Academy ofSciences regrets having rejected Yesterday Marie Curie was her as a member a few months ago. In the election of a substitute for the academician Gernez, who passed away recently, Marie Sklodowska Curie lostfor two votes. There was a joint meeting of the five academies which compose the Institut de France, where a majority had opposed the admission of women, according to the tradition, but each...