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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9460, 23 June 1902, Page 4

A gruesome state of thing* i» revealed in a recent issue of the New Zealand Herald in regard to a <:an« of death by plague which happened in Auckland. If the facts are an stated thuy Hiwm t.o argue a not very assuring Htuti' "f 1-liin^n. It appeara that on it nwiil. TliiifHilfty >iij/lila young man wm lukmi Mudili-nly ill, N'-xt day a doctor wilh called in, On Ut« Hat, urday the poor hid wim iJeiw). ")i U<". Monday the vicar of tlie. )i;u mli called t.o express sympathy, and .found tlie. mriall house filled with .sorrowifiK frimi'lH, wuiy of whom were lingering round the corpwe. Decomposition had advanced exceedingly rapidly,' ho the clergyman udvinwl the, relatives to open tin; window*, and not allow any more viitilorH to view tliu body. It was determined to keep the body awaiting interment until the Wednesday in order that a military funeral might bo arranged for. The " clergyman reported his suspicions to the medical officer of health, and that gentleman had the body at once removed to the morgue. A post mortem examination was made, but the health officer (so it is asserted) held his tongue. Deceased was buried upon tlie certificate of a medical man, who declared something was wrong with the' heart. After careful microscopical examinations and experiments the medical officer of health emphatically declares the case to have been plague.