A PLAGUE CASE IN AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 24

A PLAGUE CASE IN AUCKLAND.

! ALL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. '• DEVTH OF THE PATTENT. S-i .!. ('.. Ward. Acting- I'romu'i. received | the foiijv.iug telegram fioin the Health Officer at Auckland: — "I regret to have to inform you of the exi"tencp of plague in Auckland. The paiient was taken ill on the 19th. Infecrion was caught through handling cargo from an infected port. There is little likelihood of further cat-ps, as the rats here are not infected. The patient was at once removed to a special hospital, and everything burned. All the contacts are doing well, and are being well cared for." AUCKLAND, Apii] 25. Dr .Mason (health officer) and Dr Makgill | (district health officer) had an interview with the Mayor this morning upon the question of making provision for the treatment of ca^es of infectious disease. Prompt action in this direction is deemed necessary by the Health Department owing to the fact tlhat cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria are being sent to the general hospital for treatment in adjacent buildings, and it is felt the time has arrived when special provision should be made for such cases. It was decided to call a special conference of representatives of local bodies to meet Dr Mabon on Monday at the Municipal Building?. April 26. Virtue, the patient confined in the plague hospital, is doing well «o far The family are isolated, and none of them have developed any symptoms of plague, though it is seven day* since Virtue was taken ill. His house has been gutted and fumigated, and othei precautions taken Apnl 28. Vutue, the plague patient, died tins n.orning in the plague ho-pital. The body was cremated The contact*, who ha\e been caiefully isolated unto the iase was disto\ered, aie all well. At a (onftience of local bodies, held today., it via-, decided to lctjuest the Chief Health Officer to take steps to have a hospital built for the reception of infectious <li'-ea«e«. : the present plague hospital m the Domain to he puled down. Dr Og-ton, the ui-tnct I-calili oiYki-i. •«tat(v» that eveiyfhnio iicci"-».uy h*i» been done lo prevent a vi-itation of the plague to this di-tiift, though biich a AHitat-on lie ( oiiaidt-rs improbable, DuneJin 1-iiip- cniv a second port of < ill for -teaii-or- f1 om infected ports. An unp.acybli' uai '■•«- In <-n waged again-t. j.-'t^. .Mid dunnjj Hm> ui-l moiith .*hout 800 !iu\p been (ic-f : >•. o<'. Kat tatchen !m\6 im-truetixni to lunitr . ny Mis picious 6pr(imr>is to On- health ot\',t -i. lint so far no rats in any way jihipur info( ted h;.\e lieoi. di-i o\ eu-u. Dr Og.-lo'i examined -><irne caught <m boa id tin- Waiiimoo ic- < eui.lv at Port C'hahner-. but all pioerl 1111 usually lualthy b'-a~t» The health offit pi fwither ha-> hi* eye upon a ' lookerv" of dozen old honors in ihf <iiy, wlncli he hope.--) to .•r.-,o\e -iioitly. Tl.p ijti.-ti.tiu tie iiuangonieut^ -ccrntiv adopttd air. lei •stair*, now woikiug hkn ilockuoik Tlip-<» ! (iiaii, ln)ive\er. a laigr> am.nuit of .u'di. tionul i.ibour, keeping a Mutt cvf j up-in j pa. --enters till then tune bniit ha-. i lapn '1 I Lno advantage of tlie svstom. liowimi. i> J Uij obvious The- _<':i(.i\il lipakli of tin- (ii\ | i-, uttordnig to die iiPrilin offic r uiMu.'th ■ good. Theie h«i\e her: about fom (,-t-r-, <>f i typhoid dunng the la>t m\ in<ji.th-. The J

is one that Dr Ogston is at present pushing on to the best of his power. In the event of a rase of plague occurring, he has the power to select any public reserve as a location for a temporary hospital of this nature.