THE PLAGUE.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1457, 9 June 1902, Page 2

THE PLAGUE.

Another Plague Patient. A Death Reported at Auckland. Telegraph, Press Association Copyright Christchurch, June 7. Although the local Health Officer has not thought fit to give information now that a sister of Shields, the first plague patient from Lyttelton, who assisted in nursing her brother, has also shown symptoms of plague, and is now an inmate of the Plague Hospital at Bottle Lake. She is, however, doing well. Information has been received in Christchurch that another death from plague has occurred at Auckland. Upon his returning from his visit to the infectious diseases hospital late this evening, Dr. Mason granted an interview to a Star reporter with regard to the patient Moore, who was moved from the steamer Monowai to the hospital. The Chief Health Officer states that the case is not one of plague, although the symptoms were such that any medical man would have been quite justified in taking the course which was taken by Dr. U pham and the District Health Officer, under the circumstances. The Chief Health Officer, Dr. Mason, visited Lyttelton to-day, and inspected the plague suspects. It eventuates that there is a woman suspect in Lyttelton, whose case had never been reported. Both suspects are stated to be improving. Sydney, June 8. There was one case of plague today, and one patient is dead. The latter was employed at the Zoo, where several more animals have died of the plague.