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Died in the 1903 plague outbreak,[1] aged 20.
Died at the Quarantine Station.[2]
Daily News, Friday 30 January 1903, page 1:[3]
BUBONIC PLAGUE.
THE PREMANTLE OUTBREAK. DEATH OF A PATIENT. NICHOLAS BUICICH
Nicholas Buioich, who was the second patient discovered in connection with the present outbreak of plague at Fremantle, has succumbed to the malady. Yesterday the two other patients continued to muke satisfactory progress towards recovery, but Buicich took a turn for the worse, and it was then seen that his condition wan extremely critical. He gradually sank, and expired, a few minutes before midnight.
Dr. Anderson made a post-mortem examination of his body, and the remains of tho unfortunate young man will be cremated this afternoon.
Buicich, who was just 20 years of age, was a Greek, and was employed as a cook at Bayley and Sutherland's oyster saloon in Market-street. He was removed with eight other contacts to the quarantine station at Woodman's Point on Tuesday, and it was on that day that he was pronounced to be suffering from the dread disease. His temperature rapidly rose, and it soon became so high that his condition was regarded as most dangerous. As in the case of the other patients, Buicich was supposed to have contracted the plague through the bites of fleas.
THE OTHER PATIENTS.
The two other patients, Hugh Murray and Lucy Butterworth, were reported to be doing well when we went to press, and there were no fresh developments at the quarantine station.
References
- ↑ George Hugh Spencer Blackburne; T. L. Anderson Report on the outbreak of plague at Fremantle 1903
- ↑ The Plague in Fremantle. (1903, February 3). The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette (Cue, WA : 1894 - 1925), p. 2. Retrieved June 13, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233368834
- ↑ BUBONIC PLAGUE, (1903, January 30). The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), p. 1. Retrieved December 23, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83164126