TOPICS OF THE DAY.
THE PLAGUE. A Wellington resident who has just returned from Sydney reports that the utmost consternation prevails in the New South Welsh capital on account of the plague scare. While he was there he contracted a sore throat and a slight swelling of the arm consequent upon an insect bite. When he visited one of the leading doctors to explain the symptoms and ask for advice, the latter scuttled round to the far end of a table, throw a disinfected cloak over his shoulders, and started to reel off with great rapidity a number of questions as to who his visitor was, where ho had come from, and where he was living. Naturally the Wellingtonian was considerably startled, and when, next day, feeling considerably better, he again called on the medico, lie asked him the meaning of his strange conduct. “Well,’.’ replied the doctor, “a man with just such symptoms''as yours called in to see mo last week, and in twelve hours he was dead of plague. He was taken away and buried, but we have never been able to find his name or trace his identity from that, day to this.” Revelations of the filthily insanitary condition of Sydney continue to he made.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4605, 8 March 1902, Page 4
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