PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA.
THREE SYDNEY PATIENTS. SEVEN DEATHS IN 27 CASES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 2. The diagnosis of three suspects showed | that they were suffering from plague. Two are from Botnay and one from Redfern. All are from new plague-infected areas. There have now been 27 cases, with seven deaths. OUTBREAK NEARING OLOSE. VIGILANCE STILL NEEDED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE. May Q. The Director-General of the Federal Public Health • Department, in a warning against relaxation in the campaign against rats, states that so far the public efforts have kept the plague from sweeping the continent. Any Blackening, however, might undo all that has been done, although the epidemic is now approaching its close. ___^____„. — .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 7
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