THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9099, 18 March 1901, Page 2

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

(Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright- United Preas - Association.) MELBOURNE, March 16. • A case of smallpox was discovered at Caulfield to-day. The patient is a horsedealer who arrived from Calcutta six weeks ago. PERTH, March 16. * Another case of plague has been discovered. PERTH, March 18. A further plague case is reported, the patient being a youth named Schultz. Investigation reveals the fact that rats are infected with plague throughout the central part of the city SYDNEY, March 16. One of the plague . contacts from the troopship Antilliau broke from the quarantine. He is believed to be m the city, and the police are searching for him. BRISBANE, March 17. A child Wood, who died shortly after admission to the Children's Hospital, was discovered to have been suffering ..from plague.

The Newcastle-on-Tyne steamer Highland Prince arrived m the Tyne f rom the River Plate, after a melancholy voyage (says an English paper). Bubonic plague broke out among tlie crew; and tibe chief ,officer, Mr Wood, belonging to South Shields, after lingering for .4 hours, succumbed to an attack. Maud Stevens, aged 7, one of the passengers, also died. Captain Holmes, of Middlesbrough, and Mrs Stevens, mother of the child, .were stricken down. The case of Captain Holmes proved fatal; ljufc Mrs Stevens recovered. The cook, after being laid up for 10 days, also died. Some other members of the crew were ill, bub they got better. * •'■ ■