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Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 3

The New South Wales Board of Health has received returns which show that For the week ending February' 17 of this year there were 8926 cases of plague in India and 7362 deaths, while for the week ending February 24 the. number of rases reached 9717 and the deaths were 8312. Though these figures appear to us to be largo, especially the nujliber of deaths, in comparison with the cases, they are very meagre when the returns for 1905 and 1904 are taken. The largest number last year was Apparently in connection with the week ending April 8, when the cases reached the alarming total of 59,227, and the deaths recorded were 52,841. After that date the ravages of the disease decreased so rapidly that t|ie : average number oj accor.din» to the latest accounts, does not exceed 4000 per' week. ' The Indian authorities, ty is also stated, are now prepared to acknowledge that the plague is to a certain extenE spread by rats. SMOKERS. PLEASE NOTE. The famous GOLDEN EAGLE Tobacco is nbw eold in TWO-OUNCE TINS, FLAKE CUT. Try it. v ... .- '. .■ .y