THE PLAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 106, 25 June 1900, Page 2

THE PLAGUE.

[By Ei.ixTiiic Tbi.kohai-h. Coj'Ykigiit.] [I"KU PHKSS ASSOCIATION.] THE SYDNEY OUTBREAK. » Received 21, -U0 p m. 1 Sydney, Juno 24. A fresli case is Elizabeth Carter, of " Paddington. f (Received 25, 1.36 a m.) Sydney June 24. A fresh case is Alfred Ferguson, of Balmain. A QUEENSLAND CASE. s Received 25,1.3G a.m. i Rockhampton, June 24. i' A fresh case is Mrs. Harmes. ! , SUSPICIOUS CASE IN AUCKLAND. 1 HOUSES QUARANTINED. 7 ' 1 Auckland, June 24. Another plague scare has arisen in 3 Auckland. A man named Kelly, foreman 3 in a gum store, died late on Friday night in Upper Queen-street. He had been ill since Sunday last. On Saturday morning his two medical attent dants reported the case as suspicious to . the local authority. Dr. King (city [ medical officer) and Dr. Baldwin . (Government Sanitary Commissioner) , were called in, and xnnde a.pont-mortem, } with the result that thoy considered , the case sufficiently suspicious to order : quarantine, but reserved final judgment . pending tho result of a bacteriological , and microscopical examination, for which specimens were sent to Wel- • lington by the Qairloch to-day. The , body was buried on Saturday in an isolated part of Waikumete Cemetery. Kelly's late residence was immediately quarantined, and when 'ic was'found that the children had, since the death, been sent to their grandmother, both the grandmother's houses (one in Liver-pool-street and one in Chapel-street) were quarantined. The police are guarding the three quarantined houses. All the medical men in town met in conference with the Mayor and the ' local Board of Health this afternoon. Xo decision was ou tho c .i:-v ■iicudin- ivcoipi u,'litres.tit* of li.i ';

.'.'.\;iniiniiliO!:.s ;ib out all ; precautions mil bo cuiuinuoi!.' i '••>,]:.:..]■. ..iA J'j.^Vi.AVij). Ahioiv; li. E k-l:- of t1!,,1,-i,!1,1s Who !)avc ».v,uc,, J .[.„;~•., b -:. our knowledge, not u ssiivjlo t-a.-u hasiviiihod in pneumonia. Thus. Whiitieht k i\i. 2M Wibauh Avrnur. Ouicat'O. one ot iht- "j-">st prominent retail druggists in that city' 'in spouking of tliis, say*: "We recommend Chamberlains Cough Kcmedy for Id grippe m many cases, as it not only gives prompt and complete rcoovcry, but also countaaets any tendency of la grippe to, result in pneumonia", lot &.le by New Plymouth Cooperative Society,—AoX

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