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Show PLAGUE IN VENEZUELA. Precautions Taken to Prevent Spread of Dread Disease. Caracas. As a result of the reappearance reap-pearance of bubonic plague here, 'President! Gomez has failed a decree making the declaration of disease obligatory and providing for the establishment es-tablishment of a corps of maritime sanitary police to prevent the importation impor-tation or transmission of infectious diseases. The report of the director of tlhe sanitary commission announces one case of bubonic plague, and extensive sanitation measures already have begun. be-gun. The authorities have set apart a building to be used as a special hospital and the sanitation of all houses has been ordered. All persons per-sons leaving Caracas are being examined. ex-amined. Sanitary commissions have been appointed at La Guira and Puerto Ca-bello Ca-bello to prevent, if possible, the spread of the disease to these ports. |