Te Pipiwharauroa 26
No 26
No 26
1900/04/01
[2] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 26, Gisborne, April 1900
THE EPIDEMIC
The epidemic which struck the peoples of the west coast of India has hit Port Jackson. Thousands of Indians have died. The main cities hit by the plague are Bombay and Poona. In three years 70,000 people of Bombay died, most were natives, a few were European. Last year the plague arrived on New Caledonia, and in February it arrived at Port Jackson. When will it cross to New Zealand? It is a very terrible disease. People die very quickly. Few recover once they have contracted it. It begins like a fever, but before long the neck or perhaps the armpits develop swellings. The doctors are still searching for a medicine with which to treat this beastly disease. The medicine discovered by a Jewish doctor is injected into the shoulders of the patient, like the injection given to prevent the spotting illness, Smallpox. Some doctors have died in the course of searching for a vaccine for this illness which is called ‘bubonic’.
