Oswaldo Cruz father-in-law, a wealthy Portuguese merchant. Cruz found the seaport of Santos ravaged by an epidemic of bubonic plague that threatened to reach Rio de Janeiro and engaged himself immediately in the combat of this disease. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro authorized the construction of a plant for manufacturing the serum against the disease which had been developed at the Pasteur Institute by Alexandre Yersin and coworkers. He asked the institution for a scientist who could bring to Brazil this know-how. The Pasteur Institute responded that such a person was already available in Brazil: Dr. Oswaldo Cruz. On May 25,
Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers is the annual journal of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. It contains scholarly and popular articles on engineering, scientific and economic topics. It was initially published as Transactions of the South Wales Institute of Engineers (Vol. 1, 1859 to Vol. 62 (1946), then renamed "Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers", Vol. 63 (1947)- Vol. 99 (1991). In 1992 it was renamed Engineering South Wales. The journal is being digitized by the Welsh Journals Online project at the National Library of Wales