The Bubonic Plague.

Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1900, Page 2

The Bubonic Plague.

— "♦ — . A woman who has been ill in Kent street, Sydney, another street on the slope abutting upon Darling Harbour — and also a patient at Randwick, are suspected to be suffering from plague. Both have been quarantined. The report that a case had occurred in the Prince Alfred Hospital proves to be baseless. Consternation has been caused at Adelaide by the death of a man named Grubb, in Adelaide Hospital, from what is supposed to have been the plague. It appears that Grubb came from Tasmania, and stayed at Melbourne for a day en route. - He was admitted to the hospital on the gth instant, and died last Friday. The body was buried in the usual way, and it wasfr not until the post mortem examination was made that the hospital doctors came to the conclusion that the case was one of plague. At the order of the Premier, the body was disinterred and re-buried at the quarantine ground, with the precautions usual in plague cases. The Government has ordered that^ full inquiry be made into the matter. The hospital doctors state that there have been at least five suspected cases of plague in the institution, all of which have proved fatal. The outside members of the profession are sceptical as to the nature of - the disease, and point out that there has been no case in any other part .of the colony. NEGLECT OF INOCULATION. ' The Randwick plague patient is named Heaton, a member of a wellknown family. His relatives had previously undergone inoculation, but the victim declined the operation. It was reported to the health authorities on Tuesday afternoon that .a boarding-house keeper named Beadington, living in Margaret street, a city thoroughfare, had developed plague sickness. There has been a rush for inoculation against the plague. Eight hundred and fifty persons were inoculated on Tuesday. Another case of plague sickness is reported from Paddington, the victim being a youth named Pepper. A WISE DECISION. As a precaution against the spread of the plague to the coastal ports, no vessel is to be allowed to leave Sydney unless thoroughly fumigated. The health authorities have appointed another batch of sanitary inspectors.