Field Marshal Kitchener announced a plan that would result in Boer concentration camps in the Transvaal., following a policy of rural depopulation first explored by the Spanish in Cuba.
The campbs would end up housing 111,619 white and 43,780 black citizens residents of the Transvaal. They'd feature a 34% death rate.
Dr. Ernest Reynolds discovered the cause of an outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in the United Kingdom. It was traced to a manufacturer of contaminated glucose used in the brewing process, and then to impure sulfuric acid used in processing the glucose. Seventy people died as a result, 36 of those people in Manchester.
The U.S. Navy completed tests on 12 inch naval guns.
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