What is black pneumonia?

Answer 1

Black Pneumonia is the same thing as pneumonic plague. Bubonic and pneumonic plague are forms of the same disease. The bubonic germ is a surly one that lives in slatternly wild creatures, insects, rodents and in the filthy shambles of great cities. In those places where nature fights civilization and both lose, the plague waits, curling its haunches. From China, in 1900, it came first to San Francisco; since then from Mexico, riding on fleas that ride on Mexicans that ride on burros.

Pneumonic plague killed 60,000 persons in Manchuria during 1910-11, and 9,000 during 1920-21. la India, during the twenty years from 1896 to 1917, there occurred 9,841,396 death from this cause.