BUBONIC PLAGUE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 16 September 1921, Page 5

BUBONIC PLAGUE

NO NEED TOR SCARE.

1 _5-?&, CARLE—PRESS aSSOCIATION-COPYRIGH. !^sb; MELBOURNE, Sep.. 15. ,WJ..-Cumpston, Director of Public ' c Health, vigorously condemned the ./Queensland authorities for concealing the case of "bubonic plague, as the most ivaluable period for the prevention of the spread of the disease had been lost. He added that although the necessary precautions were now being taken it was quite" possible the disease had already made'its way to other Australian, ports as a result of delay by jfche Queensland Government: BRISBANE. Sep. 15. At a conference the Home Secretary, the Health Commissioner, and the Federal quarantine officer discussed the -plague. They announced subsequently that there was no justi- ; fication for any scare, as probably the difficulty would he surmounted without * further human case occurring. Citi-. ■ _sens are; co-operating in the rat de- - struction crusade launched at the end ". «f August, although the people were • not then aware that the activity was .- _hie to the plague.