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Excerpt from Report on Plague in the Gold Coast: In 1908
About the month of December it was reported that dead rats were found in parts of Government House, a converted castle the stonework of which was of considerable age. Some of the rats were found under the floor attention being called to their presence by the objectionable odour. About the second week in November ratin had been laid down in the castle, and it was thought by me that the mortality amongst the rats might be due to this. About the beginning of this year rumours were circulated to the effect that a new disease had broken out in Accra characterised by some fever, the occurrence of buboes, and that it had a rapidly fatal issue. Up to this time the natives neither reported cases of illness nor death. I afterwards learnt that the native fetish doctors and herbalists had been attending cases and that they charged a fee of 1 for attending any cases of this disease, and hence the natives gave the name one pound to this disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
