MELBOURNE'S SCARE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 18 July 1913, Page 8

MELBOURNE'S SCARE.

THE KAROOLA'S PASSENGER. CASE A MILD ONE. Melbourne, July 1?'. The Karoola's passenger is suffering from a mild typo of smallpox. Sho was vaccinated in Sydney eiglit days ago, but tho infection had evidently already had six days' start. (Roc. July 17, 8.45 p.m.) Melbourne, July l?l As tho result of tho Ivaroola case, there lias been a great rush for vaccination. The Karoola's passengers are being traced, and all necessary precautions aro being adopted. " SYDNEY'S TRAFFIC AFFECTED. Sydney, July 17. Tho necessity of possessing a certificate of successful vaccination has had a masked cilect on passenger traffic by steamers to tho other States and Zealand. The Wimmera, for Auckland, carried a very small number. (Hcc. July 17, 8.15 p.m.) Sydney, July 17. One reassuring feature of the smnllpo* epidemic ib tlint its character continues to bo cf a mild form. With the increase of cases during the past few days, the lull which was becoming apparent amongst tho "vaccines" has ended, find the' depots aro again busy. To-day's cases included two more nurses from the Prince Alfred Hospital. On tho arrival of the train from Gronfell this morning, a malo passenger proceeded to the Health Department and reported that ho was suffering from a rash, which, he believed, was smallpox. A diagnosis disclosed tho fact that tho disease was present in a highly infectious state. Tho man had gone to Grenfell from Sydney a fortnight ago, and when ho discovered the rash 'ho Iwarded a tiain for Sydney, without taking any precautions, and mixed frwly with the passengers. The train was immediately disinfected, and the passengors of that trip have been asked by tho authorities to report themselves. This incident has caused great uneasiness amongst railway travellers, the numbers of which havo enormously decreased since tho outbreak of tho epidemic. Hotob and boarding establishments aro feeling tho pinch badly. Very few visi. tors are coming in from the country dis tricts or from the other States. Tho Hairdressers' Association has ordered all its members to be vaccinated Other public bodies whose duties involw them in danger of infection havo taker similar precautions.

THE LATEST: EPIDEMIC SPREADING. (Roc. July 18. 0.15 a.m.) Sydney, July 17. In spito of nil precautions, the smallpo* epidemic is steadily spreading. Twenty-six cases w(,ro reported to-day. Ten were from one suburb, while eight cases were from ouo family. SUSPICIOUS CASE IN TASMANIA. Hobart, July 1". There is a suspicious caso at Deloraine. Tho •patient arrived recently from Sydney, where ho had been a quarantined contact. In view of the existenoo of suspected smallpox in the North Island of New Zealand, the Public Health Department urges every person to take advantage of the protection afforded free of charge by the Public Vaccinators, a list of whom, in the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Nelson Health Districts is given in our public notices coluuins of this issue. Messrs. Vcitcli and Allan's staff (Shop, Workrooms, and Factory) have been vacciliated in, the interests of shopping public*