SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1836, 23 August 1913, Page 5

SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

SYDNEY'S PROBLEM. . PREPARING FOR DISTINGUISHED VISITORS, ■" < ' By TelejrupU—Press Association—Copyriijht *r . ™ Melbourne, .August 22. Messrs. A W. Black, Will Crooks, and Jones,, members of Hie British Parliamentary party, have declined to bo vaccinated on conscientious grounds. Tliev are members of tho Britisl\ Anti-Vaccination t arty. Two other members of tho Parliamentary party are averse to vaccinanon, but their objections are less strong. J. no only arrangement that oan bo made regarding the objectors is to land tliem at ouva from wlicnco they ■ oan bo brought to Australia. Otherwise they -will 'havei to enter New Zealand, which would involve being quarantined'. To reach Australia, arriving from Fiji, they ivoul<t be landed at Broken Bay, whence they could bo conveyed north or south -without entering tho quarantine area.

(Reo. August 23, 0.55 a.m.) Tho Government of "Fiji has proclaimed i V n'" 0 l l i Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia to be infected States. Mr. tho Stato Premier, has doomed to protest against Victoria bring declared an infected Stato. The solo caso which occurred in the Stato camo from Sydney.

V Sydnoy, August 22. Lleven cases or smallpox vrero reported to-day. One or two of tho cases are of a fairly 6evero typo, and include n Chinese cabinet-maker, tho first Celestial to bo attacked since tho outbreak.

Rather a bad caso of concealment is reported from tho Surrey Hills district. When an ambulance called for a woman patient, she, the husband, and their child had disappeared. The Toanworth caso has proved to bo chickon-pox. ISOLATED DELPHIC. The Delphic is still- moored off Somes Island. It has not yet been "decided, how long she will bo there, but, owing to tho refusal of two members oi tho crow to submit to vaccination, it is possible that she may bo "unemployed" for a fortnight. Tho search for tho stevedores who worked tho vessel on Monday is proceeding, but tho "captures" (if any) are not largo.

' It is now twelve-days siuco tho last caso was reported in Auckland, and as tho period of incubation of tlio diseaso is fourteen days, there is reason to think that tho epidemic is now in'hand-. Tho Wellington oivic authorities aro aiding tho Health Department in its search for tho Delphic contacts.

Tho District Health Oiflcc>r, 'Auckland $Dr. Monk), reports:—No fresh cases ropofted in Auckland. Four cases are reSorted from Kaikoho. Two casea at rakau." One case at Tautoro.