ARABIAN PENINSULA.

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Medical archive on plague outbreaks and inoculation in Aden. An interesting archive documenting the plague epidemic that swept Aden between October 1904 and May 1905, containing reports on admissions, inoculations, and mortality among the local population, together with statistics broken down by patients' ethnic origin. Most of the material concerns the districts of Kraytar (Crater or Sirah), Mualla, Holkat Bay, and Khur Maksar, where the disease spread through maritime trade.An official typed report provides a detailed chronology of the outbreak, tracing its spread along supply and transport routes to neighbouring dwellings occupied by Somali stablemen, Indians, and Europeans. It analyses how local housing contributed to transmission through the "defective means of isolating each house" and by "allowing the infected animals to carry the disease from one house to the other". A second section examines methods used to detect the plague. These included post-mortem examinations at Aden Civil Hospital, run by the British authorities, where the nurse Miss Eagan assisted with the examination of deceased women to ensure "the examination of the dead with decency and regard for the feelings of the relatives", together with the often difficult evacuation and disinfection of infected buildings, including increased ventilation. Particular difficulties were encountered within some Hindu communities, whose residents often refused to leave their homes.Four manuscript tables record plague cas

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