THE PLAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 76, 26 March 1900, Page 3

THE PLAGUE.

THE OUTBREAK IN SIDNEY. TWO OTHER CASES REPORTED. [By Eleotbio Telegraph.- Copyright ] [PUB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received 24, 9 50 a.m.) Sydney, March 24. The whole of the proclaimed plague area has been closed to the public, and a barricade is being erected. The serum is fast besoming exhausted. Ten thousand doses from India are expected in about tbree weeks, and efforts are being made to obtain some from Pasteur's Institute, Paris. A start is being made to manufacture serum locally, but it will take some months to produce it. The Archbishop has if sued a special prayer for deliverance from the plague, which will be r<ai in all Anglican Churches, A man named Hayncs, a resident of Quay-street', has been attacked by plague. He worked in Sussex-street, | (Received 24, 3.16 p.m.) I Sydney, March 24. ! A post mortem in the supposed case of plague at Suirey Hills showed that death was due to heart disease, (Received 25, 6 p.m.) Sydney, March 25. A man named Jordan, residing in the infec'el area, has been quarantined, and the case is suspec t;d to be one <f plague.

The inspectors are making house-to-! house visits of the iiifeGted area. A purnber of places hav.e been reported as very insanitary, and some unfit for human habitation Cleansing operations will commence on Monday. Over eight thousand persons have been inoculated. Perth, March 22. Shipping companies complain the destruction of rats is seriously | interfering with their business. MORE CASES REPORTED. ANOTHER DEATH. (Received 26, 1.40 a.m.) Sydney, March 25. Two more cases of plague have been reported—Mills and Hall, both employed at widely divergent points in George-street. One death has occurred in quarantine, viz, Haynes, The Premier has decided to quarantine any warehouse where an outbreak of the plague occurs.