PREVENTIVE MEASURES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 September 1921, Page 7

PREVENTIVE MEASURES

Received Sept. 15, 1.20 a.m

. SYDNEY. Sept. 15. Strict precautions have been adopted with vessels from Brisbane, in view of the outbreak of plague there. The Brisbane plague victim was an employee ma produce store. Besides six infected rats found in South Brisbane, two more were caught in tEe North Brisbane area with suspicious symptoms. ~Til© Ho«»e Secretary announced in the Assembly that there is no need for public alarm, as fifteen dny s have passed since the original case was discovered, and no more suspicious cases have been reported since. Action was ' being taken to destroy rats on tho | waterfront and in the warehouses. Other restrictive measures are being enforced.