BUBONIC PLAGUE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10175, 9 June 1911, Page 1

BUBONIC PLAGUE.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S PRE- ; CAUTIONS. [Pee Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 8. The Hon George Fowlds, Minister of Public Health, has sent the following reply to Mr T. E. Taylor, Mayor of Christchurch, who suggested that the precautions taken by the Health Department to protect other parts of New Zealand from the spread of the Auckland plague outbreak are inadequate:—"ln reply to your telegram of yesterday I ain advised by the Chief Health Officer that "he cannot recommend further precautions against plague infected rate landing at Lytteltou and other ports without general dislocation of the commerce of the dominion, which tho conditions at Auckland do not at present warrant. Some time ago district health officers were instructed to be on the lookout for plague-infected rats, and drastic rat regulations have been issued empowering them to take special action where rats are found on premises. Harbour Board authorities are on the alert and are destroying rats. In response to a departmental circular to other local authorities it would 'appear that they, too, are giving effect to the suggestions of the Department."