The Bubonic Plague.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 123, 14 March 1901, Page 1

The Bubonic Plague.

London, March Jl. The total number of cases CapA Town is 102. Twenty-two. deaths haya oc juried. New \ ork, March 11. A committee of experts reporta thafe the bubonic plague has a serious hpfd Qft San Francisco. Brisbane, March I}. Another plague c su is reported, W ei,i; in O') on, March 11. The Government has cabled to England and India for 2000 more doses of plague serum. ' A n-w system of fumigating vessels is to bo brought into operation in Ne\? Zealand. Machines specially made fop the purpose are being obtained frojtft Australia, also a supply of compressed material, the fumes of which will dbUibutcd by the machine to every of the ship, Christchurch, March 11. Dr. S,vines of Christchurch, Health Officer for Canterbury, has written tQ the Lyttelton Borough Council asking it to continue poisoning rats on fhh wharves, and to keep a number o| ferrets for the destruction of rats. Xh?, Synms has also asked the Christchurch City Council to resume the system qf payment for dead rat?,

TV; following notice his baen issued bv the Chief He Ith Officer to all Port :Ic il.h OlUoers, and will he rigidly tin'orccd : *• In tiia c sea of all vessels arriving from Cape Colony, and the pen ts Sydney, l>nsb’>ne, Adelaide and Perth, th- follow ng p eojulious must be takeq to pr.vcui ruts f-’orn coining ashore (1) Thai guards he paced on hawsers j (2) vessels to bo moored 4ft fcom wharf (3) gangways to ho tarred, and to ha lifted up at night; (4) ropes to, be tarred win n n c ssaiy; (6j lights to bs hunvng between t.ne vessel and the quay; during tho night, on the wnarf si la (hi all tarring t ■ h.- kept moist, and ahe every p sdblc means to bo taken to prevent rats from coming on vessels.