PLAGUE.
REPORT BY AT.:CKT,AND HEALTH . . OFFICER. !Hl Tclfsraph-Profs Association.) Auckland, Anpiist I. In reportin; to tho Aiicklnud Harbour Board this afternoon thai the. la>l casp of ]il:i{, r no had 'been discharged from ispInlion at Hip Hc-pital, Dr. Makuill, Dis(rid; Health Ofliccr, stair.:! that Iherp was sonio doubt as In his duly to the port as regards the occurrence of p!a»up in rats. Tlie Paris Convention was silent, on the matter, but he was now endorsin;,' bills of health in these terms: "The last rasp of plazuo in man was reporlpd on May H of Ibis year. The last discovery of a plague-infected rat was on .May 31.' No ease of plague in man is iiuw under treatment." The officer added Dial: lit- learned Irom the Director of LJunrantino to the Commomvpallh (hat !hp custom there was to consider a port infected until twelve mouths bad elapsed from the lime the last infected rat had been discovered.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1195, 2 August 1911, Page 8
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157PLAGUE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1195, 2 August 1911, Page 8
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