THE PLAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 8 May 1900, Page 3

THE PLAGUE.

THE OUTBIIEAK IN SYDNEY.

[Br Electric Telegraph.—CorYmoiiT.] (PER PBESS (Received 7, -10 a.m.) Sydxey, May 6. Two more deaths have occurred in quarantine - Sprott and McClemon. The hospital report shows that there have been 196 cases of plague, resulting in 63 deaths. Last week furnished 37 cases, the highest yet. (Received 8, 1.27 a.m.) Sydney, May 7. Fresh cases of plague are a child named McKinnon, at Redfern; Margaret Lawrence, Oamperdown. Both are dead. Edmunds died in quarani tine, A DEATH IN BRISBANE, Beceiveti 8, 1.27 a.m. Brisbane, May 7The second patient of the Cintra has died, it ib stated of typhoid. The steward of the Cintra has died of plague. IMPORTATION OF NEWZEALAND

SWINE PROHIBITED. j ( (Received 8, 1.27 a.m.) | Hobaut, May 7. The importation of 6wine from New . Zealand is prohibited for twelve months. [ NEW ZEALAND PRECAUTIONS. Wellington, May 7. Dr. Baldwin, Sanitary Commissioner of Auckland, now wires to the Colonial Secretary with regard to the boy bitten | l by a rat: —" I am glad to be able to say that the buspeoted cjso has bean decided not to be pUgue. The honorary staff of the Hospital calkd in Dr. Lloyd-Smith as an expert. I was not asked to be present at the consultation, but Dr. Woodward says be admitted the bacillus to be like the plague, ' though not phgue. I feel that the precautions taken were in the public interest, so that if a further ex- ' amination had shown the case to be true plague, everything possible to be done to conserve the public I health would have been done. 11 may say that the staff have left the II case in an isolated ward, though not in I quarantine, and that one member ! thought it necessary to leave his coat to be burned. It should be noted that the case has been under treatment k the hospital since 24th April, and was ' ordered into isolation by a member o! the staff." The Wellington City Council hai ' paid for over 2000 rats. The City Council to-day decided t< ' fall in with the Appeal Court's decisioi and issue the lease of a site on whicl ■ tne plague hospital stands to the Towt Clerk, as trustee for the Beard o J Health. At the instance of the Health Com. miseioners, the Mayor haß promised to j add a crematorium to the hospital,