DANGER OF PLAGUE.
ALL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION• AUCKLAND, Nov. 12. Strict precautions are being taken by the. Health Department to prevent the introduction to New Zealand of pneumonic plague from California. The Minister for Health (Sir Maui Pomare) stated to-day that the British Consular Agent at Los Angeles had advised that the strictest measures were being taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Sir Maui Pomare said that so far as New Zealand was concerned all the port health officei's and shipping inspectors had bee ninstructed to take the same precautions with boats from Los Angeles and San Francisco as were taken two years ago in respect of bubonic plague in Australia. The precautions include the medical examination of passengers and crews, and the inspection of ships for the trapping of rats and the usual devices to prevent rats gaining the shore.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 November 1924, Page 5
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