THE PLAGUE.
THE FIFTH CASE REPORTED.
Another caso of plaguo waa .oporto, yea torday. Tho victim la a man named Michael John Joseph Honnossoy, who reaides in Re sorvoir-Btroet, Surry Hills, and waa em- ployed as a carter at a fruit and producá atoro kopt hy a Chinese in Campbell-streqt,
near the Belmore Markets.
It appears that Hennessey waa attacked iwith slckneSB at 2 o'clock yesterday morn 'lng, and at 1 p.m. yosterday tho case "as reported to the Doard of Health ai a sus- picious one. An examination by a medical officer of tho board revealed the fact that Hennessey was suffering from plaRiio, and ho was at once romov.d to tho Coast Hos- pital. His homo was disinfected, and the city health authorities set men io work to overhaul tho store in Campbell-street. The ipremlsos wero found to be in an excellent structural condition, and were kopt In a clean .condition.
Tho president of the Board of Health stated yestordaji that in 1902 four or live cases ot plaguo occurred amongst the Chinese (vu iployod in the storo. Although the premises thon wore not as bad ns many places In which plague broke out that year, lmprovcmeula «ero carried out, and on inspection yester- day they wero Sound to bo in a good con-
dition.