THE BUBONIC PLAGUE

Otago Witness, Issue 2505, 26 March 1902, Page 15

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE

<$► THE SCOURGE IN INDIA. LONDON, March 17. One hundred tliou-and rat^ have been killed in the London -docks during the last few months. March 23. Two thou-and- deaths from plague occur daily in the Punjaub (India). Half the province is infected with the disease. SYDNEY, March 18. A man named May, living in Bahnain, is suffering from the plague. Thc> Chinaman Yick Choy, of Castlereagh street, is dead. March 19. The plague patient Fairlie is dead. Three additional plague cases have been reported — youths named Winn (at Surry xiills), Aldridge (at Er-kinevillc), and Maher (at Itedfern) being declared infected. March 20. A youth named Avery, in the Haym'.irk'"t di-trict, is down 'with the plc'Kiie. The following * are additional plague case s*:5 * : — Youth-, named Robertson (Surry Hills) and Godwin (Bexley), and a man named Balddock (Kogarah). Two of to-day-, and three of the previous patients wi-te employed in a city printing firm. March 21 Tho following frt"-h plague cn-es were n-ported — A boy named T.uT-ey, at Alexandria, and a man named Jenkins, one of the rnw of the barque Eulomene, at Newci-tle, where she arrived a few day- ae,o from Sydney. Two men named Buck (of Paddington) and Done', (of the Salvation Army Home) are reported as suffering from plague. March 22. The plague patient Robinson is dead. March 23. A c;irl named M'Han, King s-treet, is -uttering from plague. The patient May is dead. BRISBANE, March 20. A girl named Bickersdale has been attacked by the plague. Maicli 21. A boy named Ockclford i^ down with plague. Tn connection with the ipstrietions against the introduction of plague it is the piactice for the local health officer to inspect vessel.-* from Sydney at each port. Although the Zealandia, from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast ports, lay at anchor off Port ! Chalmers for a couple of hourp yef-terday ] she was not boarded by the health officer, neither were any of the passengers allowed iq land. On coming alongside tha whajrf

I at Dunedin Dr Ogston was therefore communicated with by telephone, but did not deem it necessary to detain the passengers, who were therefore allowed to go ashore.