THE BLACK DEATH

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1924, Page 7

THE BLACK DEATH

EXTRA EDITION.

A TERRIBLE PLAGUE. MOURNERS BECOME VICTIMS. CONSTERNATION REIGNS. los angeLes in Terror. by -CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Nov. 3, 2:30 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov: 1 [Los Angeles has been visited with the dreaded “Black Plague,” which took such terrible toll of life in London in 1665, when the m °rt-ality in one yefir amounted to 32,000 persons.] A- Eos Angeles despatch says that the “Black Death,” which swept London in the fifteenth century, is be- « lieved to have broken out there. • A Mexican woman died recently, apparently of pneumonia, and of seventeen who attended her funeral,, twelve are now dead, and physicians say the remainder cannot survive. Three of those never entered the' house of the first victim. The greatest consternation prevailed. • The city health officer, reporting on the diagnosis,' said it is definitely established that the ailment is pneumonic plague, a- very terrible disease .in the form of double pneumonia. Both lungs become infected and the temperatiire goes to a high mark. Death follows swiftly, generally within four days after the disease first appears. The mortality is very high. “We feel,” he said, “that of the - seventeen Mexicans the total death rate will be a hundred per cent. Armed guards have been placed around the districts in which the victims resided. The dead have been placed in an isolated ward. ‘ •. Pneumonic plague is the same disease which struck London in the fifteenth centuiy, and it is not known how it originated.