The Plague.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9615, 18 April 1900, Page 4

The Plague.

':■.:.:■.■}, *%rSTDNE?, April:; 17. One fresh case of plague is reported

to-day,^ an"cl oirieldea^h; ;' : ■ .Wong Hoping" %\sea&. ■;■ -j^f. -„ ;. A boy named O'Sullivan (Balmain) is plague stricken.-- £ \ -.-. ...:--.<■■.■■<•?■; . 'O-.Vi The Wexford" quarantine area 'has been cleansed and^ released. „ BRISBANE,. April .17. There are two more oases.,of,; plague,.

on the.steamer Burmah. ;>■' ;' TKeudoctdrs' and.;'attendants uhaye; been .inoculated.,., ...,. .. ■;?;■' w^ vTne' excursionists hare to' report for exftmitfa'tipn. ':■.&. ; '4 i.hi AUCKLAND April 17 Mr Knight, foreman' of works to the Auckland City Council;' 'repbrta'iitfthe chairman of .the ■S&reeJ^ Committee^ prs^K^d), fa fojows: Si|ice |ou§ lastlf sanitary '^ins^ctioH df >the fcitv, jihe wit^Sura^.^n'av^ "been cleansed, all refuse lying about the gulfiea has been sprink- ' led! with t^", ' andJ.:burned. House drainage channels are being regularly attended to: Fivetihoiisandi private premises ,<hav,eT been; inspected, and about two hundred nuisances' abated. We are still continuing with our own staff of men, and the extra "labour authorised, to vigorously push forward the sanitary work of the city- ' . • , A thorough inspection, w^s piadeon: Saturday of £he work done'in the way' of cleansing the various'gullies''in and" around the,-,,-.Norjbhj South, rand Ponj, 'sonby Wards'of'the city; the differ-' ent tips where rubbish had been ac- ...,;,. cumtilaitiiig,,- and,-,,where rubbish.had: " j. recently .be^n Jburnedj r were also „yisi also 'the c!various open drains which hefed cohering iii-to:-complete the system, of drainage in gullies, notably in Oliph^nt street } . .and An- , glesea, street. ;A' report will be furf^mshed' toVthe/CounciL showing what work ia urgently-required. „-„:-, In order to deal with the rubbish " -'and garbage;'- it"i^ proposed to f burn m it inriimprovisedf^mporary^/'destruc- .. „,tor.s^'r . which..wilLbe e,r.?cted— ope Mechanics' Bay, a second, in Free-. man's, Bay, and a third ins PorisonbyJ i They will be' constructed; of bricki, or • other material? about 40ft- by 14ft in dimensiona, with channels longitudijjhllv and acxjoae so .as toi secure j!, a j- t g^od draught. Sawdus,t and^tar^ be used so as to cause the rubbish,.pr

garbage to burn thoroughly", and be v;«des!troyed.-A start will be made with the house-to-house inspection to-day in-the North Ward, and thence to the other warda 4 of r the city. A residual ..product, obtained at tne Gas „Com;---i; panjfsiworks will be largely used for i disinfecting purposes. ;■ Thia riiefhod of dealing with, the rubbish will be more effective.* than, the. .system, Jb-ith.-. erto t prevailing, and will prevent and friction with outside ( .boroughß. 5^ i. V PORT CHALMERS, April 17;* Arrived: Tarawera, from H,obart. a:.; f Ordered into) quarantine. £ *