THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

Auckland Star, Issue 66, 19 March 1900, Page 2

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

I The chief event connected with the plug-lie during the last two days (says the Sydney "Daily Tfile-o-i .March 12) has

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ut-en the sickening of members ot the Dovey family. Very late on Friday night the condition of Mrs Sophia Dovey, mother oi the cliiid who died at Sydney Hospital ou Friday morning, and also that of her daughter Ivlsie, aged nine, and Harry Dovey, aged five, became suspicious. The three were at once isolated from th_ : other people al: the quarantine, ground .and taken to the hospital. On Sat-m-I day Elsie developed symptoms which caused grave suspicion, and her 'brother also became worse. Yesterday it was ascertained that they were I both stricken with plague. i Yesterday, shortly after noon, a reI port was received at the Health Dejpartment that, a suspicious case ot | illness had been discovered, at a 1 boardinghoiise ,or restaurant kept by "a Mrs Eliza Johnson, at 32. Sussexstreet, only a few doors removed from the Hunter River Inn. One of the Hoard's medical staff proceeded thither and pronounced the case to be one of true plague. The patient was a man named Paul ValliO, or Volley, a. lodger in the house, and he was re* .moved to the station during the afterj noon. With him were, talken the landlady, Mrs Johnson, «ged 68; her ! daughters, Britta Louisa Johnson | (20), and Evelyn JI. Johnson (20); ' and another lodger named John R. Hog-era (53). The embargo that has been placed on visiting at the Sydney and Glebe Hospitals still continues. Ordinary | visiting days have been suspended, j but in cases where it is absolutely j necessary that relatives should be ! allowed to see patients the. latter will be removed from any wards wihero the visitors are in the least likely to be exposed to contagion, and the rcila fives will be admitted.