IS IT BUBONIC PLAGUE?

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13336, 27 March 1911, Page 5

IS IT BUBONIC PLAGUE?

SUSPICIOUS CASES AT AUCKLAND. Patients Recovering, (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND. March 27. Daring the past week two men and a woman have Itenn under treatment in the Auckland Hospital for an illness, the symptoms of which are said to have resembled a mild form of bubonic plague. They were residents of Onehunga, where one of the men conducted a fruit and confectionery business in two small shops. He was assisted by bis wife and a man, who is the third patient. In order that there should bo no possible risk of contagion in’ the event of the illness being of a. serious nature, the contents of the two shops have been removed and burnt, (be buildings thoroughly disinfected, and portions condemned, particularly because of their insanitary condition. The three patients are recovering. As no fresh case lias-boon reported, the Health authorities lielieve that the disease lias been stamped out.