THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, SYDNEY, May 14. (Received May 14, at 9.36 a.m.) The opinion in shipping ciicles is that the Hoard of Health adopted an extreme cour.se in connection witli the Ventura when compelling her to discbarge in the stream. Vessels from other infected ports had been allowed to berth and discharge after being fumigated, The captain slates that >o far as he is aware there is no plague in San Francisco. The president of thy Hoard of Health stales that the authorities in San Francisco had coneealtd and even denied the existence of plague in that city, notwithstanding the declaration of the ipiarantine ollicers lo the contrary, and Ihe answer lo a cable stilt to the liritish consul, which staled that the plague in sporadic form had been in existence in ■San Francisco since March, ISOO. The latest Hasten) files siiow that in Tainan, China, there were, alien tin: mail left. 25 cases of plague, ami that 10 bad died Ihe. preceding week, whilst at Manila [here bad been 24 deaths out of a total of 57 cases.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12043, 15 May 1901, Page 5
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182THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 12043, 15 May 1901, Page 5
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