It is hardly credible that auy man could be found so regardless of the wellbeing of any community as to de liberately introduce the germs of such a scourge as the Plague. Yet such a oue exists in Victoria, where a medi cal man imported some of the germs with the avowed intention of experi menting. As soon as it became known, steps were taken to induce him to destroy them, but he declined. In this emergency the aid of the Cus toms authorities was called into re quisition, and the germs were confis cated on the ground that duty was not paid on the gelatine in which the germs were introduced. They were then seized and burnt. Now the im porter talks of suing the Victorian Government for £3OO, the estimated value of the consignment. Consider ing the fearful risk the public run of having such a scourge introduced into a country by such action as his, we think he is much more entitled to have a heavy penalty imposed on him —if not imprisonment. That there is grave danger has been proved by one of the medical men in Vienna contracting the disease and forfeiting his life through experimenting with the germ, in the interests of science. Any man who for the benefit of hu manity places himself in such danger is undoubtedly a hero, but to earn his laurels he should go to where the plague is and do his experimenting on the spot.
