The Bubonic Plague.

Manawatu Herald, 7 April 1900, Page 2

The Bubonic Plague.

SYDNEY. The President of the Board of Health (Dr Thompson) points out that the mortality in plague cases so far is not much more than 30 per cent., which is remarkably low compared with that in other centres. The disease here is comparatively mild, and after all is a less serious matter than typhoid fever, which is always with us. DOCTORS NOW MORE HOPEFUL. The doctors are taking a more hopeful view of the outbreak of plague. In accordance with past experience, the outbreak should have reached an epidemic stage by now, and instead of a few there should be by this time a large number of cases daily.

,The medical men are sanguine that the energetic measures which have been taken for checking the scourge have had effect. EXPEET SERVICES. The Government haa engaged Dr Harvey, belonging to a vessel which recently arrived from the East. He has had large plague experience in Bombay. At the request of a number of city warehousemen, who will pay the expenses, the Government has decided to appoint an expert inspector to direct fumigation and the prosecution of other precautionary measures on their premises. INSURANCE. Some insurance companies announce that they have added the plague to the list of diseases covered ,~ by accident policies. •( THREE DEATHS.' Two of the plague patients — Wells and Smith — have succumbed to the r disease. , - A man named Hill, a resident of Paddington, who has been employed in Sussex street, has been attacked by the plague. ? f, • A child named Rajfflinson, Hying -\ at Paddington, died on the sth from plague. Dead rats were found in the ' house. The Queensland Government has received 500 doses of plague serum, and intends obtaining 10,000. more. The Victorian Postmaster-General has protested to Mr Crick (Postmas-ter-General of New South Wales) against clothes from Sydney being I sent through the post, as being likely to introduce the plague intoVictorifl. He notifies that parcels' of this kind undelivered will be returned.