PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS.
Si r —The Mayor and councillors of Christchurch are «n- properly up in arms against the indifference oi the Health Department in not taking the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of iila"iie from Auckland to other P?-" 3 of the Dominion. What I cannot understand, though, is this: Some tunc back there wore a few cases of plague in nev and the Health Department compelled all 'vessels from Sydney to havo their careers fumigated before lauding thorn on our wharves. Ti.e plague is very much worse in Auckland, and yet not one single shipment from Auckland has been fumigated. What earthly use is there m trying to prevent "plague" rats from coinin" ashore , and yet allow the cargo—over which these very same rats have been running—to he landed without bemg fumigated.—l am, etc.,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1153, 14 June 1911, Page 5
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136PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1153, 14 June 1911, Page 5
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