243 History of Medicine. 2017. Vol. 4. № 3. DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.3.2017.05e Manchurian Plague of 1910–1911 in newspaper cartoons (part 2) 1 Pavel E. Ratmanov FSBEI HE FESMU MOH Russia Muravieva-Amurskogo St., 35, Khabarovsk 680000, Russia, The article presents an analysis and interpretation of the satirical illustrations published in the Harbin newspaper Novaya Zhizn on the events connected with the pneumonic plague epidemic in Harbin (1910–1911). Bureaucracy and the ineffectiveness of a number of medical measures were subject to criticism. The satire in Novaya Zhizn was mainly aimed at finding those guilty for the epidemic. In the winter of 1910–1911, the board of the Chinese Eastern Railway sent a group of epidemiologists to Harbin. The group was headed by Professor D.K. Zabolotny, who became one of the initiators of vaccinations against the plague, and the elimination of rodents, which were the infection’s presumed vectors. The relationship between Harbin doctors and Zabolotny was tense from the very beginning, growing into an open confrontation in April 1911. At the end of May 1911, a group of doctors announced that Zabolotny did not allow Harbin doctors to attend the Mukden conference. Officially, the conflict was not resolved, as Zabolotny urgently left Harbin for Transbaikal, where his expedition for the first time isolated the causative agent of the plague from tarbagans. Harbin’s various social groups at that time had different views on the events related to the plague epidemic. In this article only one view is studied – that of the Russian-speaking community in Harbin, reflected in a series of cartoons from the Novaya Zhizn newspaper. The illustrations that have been analyzed show that the events related to the pulmonary plague epidemic in Harbin and the serious differences that arose at that time in the medical environment did not remain unnoticed by the Harbin public and confirm the public interest in health care and its medical representatives. Keywords: plague, epidemic, China, the social history of medicine, D.K. Zabolotny, periodicals, Manchuria For quotation: Ratmanov P.E. Manchurian Plague of 1910–1911 in newspaper cartoons (part 2). History of Medicine. 2017. Vol. 4. № 3. P. 243–252. About the author Pavel Eduardovich Ratmanov – Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of Public Health and Healthcare with a course of Law and History of Medicine, FSBEI HE FESMU MOH Russia (Khabarovsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: ratmanov@gmail.com Received: 21.06.2017 © P.E. Ratmanov Harbin cartoons of Professor Daniil Zabolotny1 A key member of Russia’s delegation at the Mukden Conference was Professor Daniil Zabolotny. 2 Harbiners had first got to know the bacteriologist from Saint Petersburg in December 1 What follows is a continuation of Part 1 of this paper, published previously in this journal (History of Medicine. 2017; 4(2): 134–145). 2 Daniil Kyrylovych Zabolotny (1866–1929), a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet microbiologist and epidemiologist, was one of the pioneers of Soviet epidemiology. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR from 1922, and its president in 1928–1929, and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1929. 1910, when he first visited Manchuria. Zabolotny strongly criticised the anti-epidemic measures taken by the Harbin Public Administration (HPA) and the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER), and this made him many enemies. Later assessments of the actions of the Russian authorities in the fight against the plague before Zabolotny’s arrival depend mainly on the writer’s location: whereas Vikenty Bogutsky (from Arkhangelsk) and Yevgeny Kastorsky (from Irkutsk) regard them as inadequate, Manuil Khmara-Borshchevsky and P. S. Tishenko (both from Harbin) suggest that “the doctors sent from Russia to fight the epidemic brought nothing new to what was already planned” for the fight against the plague [1–3; 4, p. 137]. One of Zabolotny’s recommendations regarded as “senseless” was his suggestion of