PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS
INTERSTATE CONFERENCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, November 22. (Received November 22, at 9.65 a.m.) Among •ot.hci- decisions reached at the Plague Conference was one that the risk of infection from bubonic or septicemic cases of plague is negligible. Such cases may be treated safely in the isolation awards of the general hospitals. It is not essential that plague cases should be treated in isolation hospitals distant from the centres of population. The use of guinea pigs to detect tho presence of plaguo fleas in suspected areas and ns traps for fleas in infected areas was approved, ns the effective destruction of' fleas is regarded as an essential part of the measures to be taken with respect to infected premises. A recommendation was approved that the present precautionary preventive regulations suggest a number of stringent measures for strengthening and widening the scope of these regulations.
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Evening Star, Issue 17824, 22 November 1921, Page 4
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