BUBONIC PLAGUE AT NEW CALEDONIA.

Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 153, 28 December 1899, Page 5

BUBONIC PLAGUE AT NEW CALEDONIA.

+. FURTHER CASES REPORTED. IriIESS ASSOCIATION. I ' § SYDNEY, 27th December. In view of the plague outbreak at Nov- . mea the municipal authorities of Sydney are cleansing the slums. The Board of . Health has a supply of prophylactic or . protective medicine which w&s obtained j irom India somt time ago. The British Consul at Noumea has wired { that the disease exists in a severe form. , There have been eight more cases and , five deaths since yesterday. No deaths . have occurred uniongst the white pa- [ tients, who are progressing favourably. , The buildings in the infected locality , are being demolished, and tho place disin- , fected. Business is at a standstill. '. ADVICE TO THE CONSUL. i The Consul for France, Count de Courte, [ has received from the Governor of New • Caledonia the following telegram : — "The ■ epidemic of plague is confirmed, but eari nest measures seem to localise it. The actual average is three cases a day, all i from the same centre of infection, which ' is now most strictly isolated. We have , taken all measures in order to keep • absolutely sound and without any • communication with the land the 'Ame- • dee* islet where are the lighthouse und I pilot station, also 'Freycinet' islet, the sanitary station whore passengers and goods bound to foreign countries are to ' be isolated during the necessary period." 1 PEECAUTIONS IN AUSTRALIA. (Received December 28, 0.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. ', Vessels which have arrived at Newcastle and Melbourne from Noumea, via Sydney, have been quarantined, and the strictest i precautions aro being taken against the in- ' troduction of the plague into Australia.