EPIDEMIC & REPORTS.
DAILY BULLETIN.
District reports seem to indicate (hit tlio smallpox epidemic lias Ik on everywhere got well in hand, but the number of oases is jiot considerable, and there aro stili .some new ones. The oilicial bulletin issued last evening sums up Iho position thus Dr. Frengley reports from Auckland"No l'urthcr rases reported in Auckland and suburbs since Saturday night." Dr. Cawlnvell reports, to-day, six fresh • cases at Rauicatao, also seven convalescents; cases at temporary hos- . pital, ICaikolio, doing well. Dr. Gunn reported lost evening three newoases at Paraworai To Awumutu way; hvo cases .now in Isolation Camp. Theso aro contacts with a man, who died of h«iomorrha.gie form of disease. Total in Hospital (Auckland), Gl—iivo Maori males, one European muJ<., and one Maori femalo; «, total of) seven. being discharged to-day. ! Thoro are no further cases reported from the other districts In-day. T. 11. A. VAUNTING, / Chief Health Officer. THE CITY CASE. Mr. V. 11. Iteed, M.P., returned to Ill's placo in Parliament yesterday, the period <rf quarantine to which, with tlio members of his household, ho was subjected by tlio Health Department, having expired on Saturday last. POINT CHEVALIER. WHOLE SITUATION EASIER. (By Telegraph—l'rcsa Association.) Auckland, July 29. • No fresh cases of the prevailing epl< domic have been reported from tlio cil.V or suburbs since Saturday night. Tlio only patient admitted to tlio Point Chevalier Hospital to-day was a Maori woman from Waiheka, a contact with other patients from the same island. Seven who have recovered from the disease (six Maoris and a Euroi>eaii) wero discharged from the isolation hospital (including , the Waiheka case referred 1o), There are now 58 patients nt Point Chevalier, of whom 45 are Maoris (20 males and 19 females), and 13 are Europeans (11 males and two females). Dr. Spodtling reports that all tl'.o patients aro progressing very favourably. One or two of the cases are rather more serious than others,'though none of tlio patients are dangerously ill. The majority, in fact, are only mildly affected. No pit marking occurred in the cases discharged to-day and amongst the convalescents in isola- ■ tioii only one (a Maori) is pitted, and she only slightly. It is expected that the second Ixitch of patients will bo ready for discharge at about the beginning of next week. Since the outbreak originated fi(i patients have been isolated at Point Cheva- ■ lier Hospital. Of these 0110 (a Maori woman from Onehunga) died. ( REPORTS RE MAORIS, Auckland, July 2D. Dr. Cawkwell Teportcd six fresh cases amongst the Maoris at Raukatao to-day and six convalescents. He stated that tlio patients in the temporary hospital at Kaikohe are doing well. Three new cases wero reported by Dr. Elizabeth Gunn from Parawera (To Awnmutu), and the doctor also stated that two patients in tlio isolation hospital nt that plaoo wc-ve found to have been contacts with the Maori who died tliero from haemorrhage, a form of tho disease. SYDNEY PASSENGERS. THE RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT. Auckland, July 29. Through passengers for Sydney by tho Marama wero all subject to tlio reciprocal agreement existing between tho Australian New Zealand Health Departments. This provides that all passengers from Auckland to Sydney or vice versa must liavo certificates of vaccination not lc-»s than 'ivo. days old nor more' than five years old. Tlirso must, bo signed i.v the respective district liealth officers. Alternatives under the agreement are certificates of immunity against vaccination or of illness or other specific reason making vaccination inadvisable. Tn tlio latter case passengers arc kept under sur. veillanco for the quarantine period o» landing. INOCULATION IMPUGNED. THE FEELING AT HASTINGS, Hastings, July 29. Tho touch of tho little needle-point Is 110 longer a joking matter with Hastings residents. In many eases (.hose vaccinated have been distinctly ill, whilst a proportion- -of adults have been incapaci- . tilted for work for a period extending from three days to a week. There is somo feeling of resentment 011 the part of the sufferers, and - it is sat'o to say that, if similar 'cireum- ' stances recurred, not 0110 in ten of thoso w.ho have been vaccinated would again voluntarily undergo tho ordeal. A particularly sad caso (which .may or may not ba attributablo to vaccination) is reported. A twelve-year-old girl, daughter of Mr. liullen, of this town, was vaccinated teij days ago. At that timo she was apparently in her usual good liffalth. On Sundav she was taken ill, and on Monday morning fell into convulsions, from which she never recovered. It ia stated that the child's death was not attributable to vaccination, but, as an inquest is to take place to-morrow, a more definite pronouncement may then lw mado. LATEST BULLETIN. (Ecc. July 30, 0.50 a.m.) Sydney, July 29. Three smallpox cases were reported- iA Ilia city and 0110 at Ulmarra to-day. The.ro have been 3000 vaccinations to date. Adelaide, July 29. One of tho "suspects" who were qnaran. lined recently has been declared not infoctcd by smalipox. * ■ SHIPPING AT FIJI. QUARANTINE RULES RELAXED. (Roe. July 29, 9.25 p.m.) Suva, July 29. Tho Government, as anticiinted, has agreed to. modify the quarantine regulations in tho direction suygc.ied by tho shipping companies. It is announced that all the Vnion Company's services will now continue as before. The Levukn . will L'o replaced by a cargo steamer from Sydney. ' • The shipping companies disclaim any wish to force the Government. They contend that they have only maJo friendly overtures to facilitate shinning operations.
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