Ah Fong, the third victim of the plague, appears to have given consider- able trouble to those engaged in looking after his welfare. After his unauthoris- ed removal from the house at the corner of James and Stirling streets on Tues- day afternoon, Dr. Black made arrange- ments for his conveyance to the isolation hospital at Woodman's Point. When the police visited him at his shop in the Fe- deral Buildings, in the evening, for the purpose of placing him in the vehicle which was to take him to Woodman's Point, Ah Fong refused to leave the building, and all efforts to effect his removal proved unavailing. Dr. Black was subsequently called in, and as the man had wrought himself into a dangerous conditio'n through excitement, the medical officer decided that he was not then in a fit state to be moved. He was accordingly allowed to remain in the quar- antined building until Wednesday afternoon, when, under the direction of Dr. Anderson, the special plague officer at Fremantle, he was conveyed in a special covered-iu vehicle to the plague hospital. This vehicle, along with the driver, will be detained in quarantine, and used ex- clusively for the removal of plague patients.
Saturday 9 March 1901 Western Mail (Perth
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