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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 5

NOT PLAGUE

V / r, ■-Jphristohurch, April 6. Dr A. B Pearson; pathologist at Christchurch Hospital, in a lecture last night on influenza, stated that-no bacte-nofo2ir-nl f^mirfition hncl shown the presence of the plague germ, and it was certainly nob plague. It Was not the stiuo typo of disease as the areat -plague (the Black Death) of . the.Fourteenth rontury: If there were a recrudescence of the disease this winter he thought it would be in a milder form, though it might be more widespread.