SUSPECTED PLAGUE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2082, 17 May 1907, Page 2

SUSPECTED PLAGUE.

Press Association I r AUCKLAND, yesterday. There are no fresh developments in - connection with the deaths reported f yesterday, but the Health Officer and s city authorities are taking energetic [ measures to discover any insanitary ) conditions. A most careful investiga- ; tion of the locality in wlrffih the two > girls worked has been made without , a discovery being made calculated to > 1 cause further uneasiness. AUCKLAND,, last night. I In connection with trie two deaths 1 I of young women employed in a " I Queen street establishment near tlio I wharves, from what is described as I acute septicaemia, Dr. Purdy, DisI trict Health Officer, has had a tlioI rough cleaning and disinfection of the I premises carried out/. The Mayor, I Mr. A. 31. Myers, is giving every I assistance, and has placed at Dr. I Purdy’s disposal the whole Borough I sanitary staff. Additional men have been engaged and a special sanitary j gang formed. After these premise's [ arc dealt with all others in the neighbourhood will be inspected and' cleansed.- An inspection is being made, and a general cleansing process is being carried out in all warehouses near the wharves and the harI i 1 front, and the chairmen of all local bodies have been asked to institute a house-to-house inspection. At I . 'f* same time an energetic campaign is being conducted against rats. ~ , WELLINGTON, last, night. Referring to the suspicious deaths at Auckland, the Minister for Public " IleaUh (the lion. G. Fowlds) states that nothing definite was yet known as to the nature of the disease. | specimens have been sent to the Bacteriologist,, who was now engaged in making an investigation. ‘Us there any ground for supposing it is an out..j? i °f Plague?” tlio Minister was asked All I can say at present is tnat the cases are very suspicious,” he replied. “Every precaution is being taken to have contacts isolated •mu tlio premises where the girls worked and dived quarantined.. The Chief Health Officer (Dr. Mason) is away at Greymouth and cannot reach Wellington before Saturday evening. Immediately on liis arrive! ho will proceed to Auckland to mako an investigation.”