THE BUBONIC PLAGUE
DISTRIBUTORS OF DISEASE. ALARMING BACTERIOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. (Received January 23, 0.30 a.m.) ADELAIDE, January 22. The chairman of the Board of Health has wired to tiie boards in other colonies that rats have been found by day close to the place where the two recent sufferers from plague had been isolated. The bodies of the vermin yielded the plague bacilli to bacteriological culture. Precautions to prevent a spread of the scourge have been increased. No fresh cases have been reported among human beings, hut there are some temporary cases of more or less severe indisposition with glandular accompaniments amongst the hospital attendants.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 3956, 23 January 1900, Page 5
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