The Minister of Public Health has issued tbe following circular to all local bodies and newspapers in the colony : — " In view of the continued presence of plague in Sydney and Brisbane and tbe recent occurrence and death from tbe disease in our colony, it behoves everyone, private as well as public, to do everything in their power to destroy all rodents. A careful house-to-house inspection of all back yards, etc., should be under, aken by every looal body. No waste food ought to be thrown upon the yard. All home refuse should be kept in a covered metal box, so that rats cannot reach it. All local author ities should institute, bi-weekly at least, the removal of all house refuse. No fowls ought to be kept unless in properly-constructed pens. Special men should be told off in every borough to trap and kill rats. It is hoped that everyone will aid tbe authorities in these efforts to circumscribe the sphere of tbe disease."

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