The Bubonic Plague.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 11, 26 June 1900, Page 3

The Bubonic Plague.

Auckland, June 24. Another plague^scare has an ben in Auckland A man nampd Kelly, foreman in a gnm stor«, died late on Friday night in Upper Queen Street. He had boen ill since Sunday last, and on Saturday morning his two medical attendants reported the case as suspicious to the local authority, Dr King. The city medicr.l officer and Dr Baldwin, Government Sanitary Commissioner, were called in, and marie a post mortem, with the result that they considered the caso sufficiently suspicious to order quarantine, but reserved their final judgment pending tho result of bacteriological and microscopical examinations, for which specimens were sent to Wellington by the s.s. Gairlocb to-day. The body was buried on Saturday in an%olated pait of the Wdikurnota CeMeter^ Kellys late residence \v|s hh mediately quarantined, and ' when it was fouad that the children bad, since the d^ath, been sent to their giandmotherb' (both grandmothers' houses arc? in Liverpool street and Chapel street) they were quarantined. The police are guarding these three quarantined houses. All the medical men in town mot In conference with the Mayor and the local Board of Health this afternoon. No decision was given on the oase, pending the receipt of the result of the oxamirmtions-at Wellington, but all precautions will be continued.

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