THE PLAGUE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 48

THE PLAGUE

CAPETOWN, March 1. Professor Simpson, the well-known authority on sanitary matters, has told ihe Plague Advisory Board that the sanitary condition of parts of Capetown is worse than that of Bombay. Since the outbreak at the Cape there have been seven deaths ,and there are twenty-one cases in' hospital. * SYDNEY, March 2. As a precaution, against- plague all vessels arriving from South Africa are being thoroughly fumigated and everything is ready for prompt action in case of a reappearance of the disease. Similar precautions are being taken in the other States. SYDNEY, March 3. A suspected case of plague has been discovered on the troopship Antillian, which has arrived from Capetown. The victim is a seaman. The ship was quarantined immediately the case was reported. As the health authorities have been officially informed that the case reported from Brisbane is one of true plague, stringent measures are again being enforced. . 1 The military authorities at UapefWn have advised Sir William Lyne that in consequence of the occurrence of cases of plague there, military mails, for A us. traJia. will be senfc via London* The patient on the Antillian, whose name was Olsen, died to-night. He developed suspicious symptoms on Wednesday. Until the diagnosis is completed to-morrow, the nature of liis disease cannot be definitely stated* The medical opinion is that the case on the Antillian was one of plague, but that there is no need for alarm, as the steamer never came near the wharf. BRISBANE, March 3. The plague sufferer at Pinkenba is a youth named Kehler. Cqrative serum is being used in his case with good effect. ’