The Bubonic Plague.

Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1900, Page 2

The Bubonic Plague.

SYDNEY. The three Dovey children and the lad Stratford, plague patients, are now convalescsnt. The hospital report for the week ending Saturday shows twenty-four cases under treatment. There have been eleven deaths and one recovery. MORE CASES REPORTED. A youth named Horan, living in Cleveland street, has been attacked by the plague. Another suspicious case has been reported to the health authorities from Balxnain,

Two mote cases of plague were reported this afternoon, the persons attacked being men named Anderson and Bevan, living at Balmain and Waverley respectively. Both these men had been employed in the infected area, and both had been inoculated a few day days ago. > ALARMING REPORTS. Three, more cases have been discovered.Vthe victims being : — Dove, of North Sydney ; Collins, Oxford street; and Hutdhinson, Clarance street. The man Hayden who contracted the plague in quarantine has succumbed. RESULTS OF AN INSPECTION. The " Daily Telegraph " states that the first report of the house-to-house inspection of the quarantined area constitutes a terrible indictment against the civic authorities responsible . for the sanitary condition of Sydney. It justifies every allegation recently made regarding the fifth and squalor that has been allowed to contaminate what nature intended for one bf the fairest cities of the world.