SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7

SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY.

WELL-KNOWN HORSEMAN DIS-

AP.PEARS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. September 20, 1.5 a.m.) Sydney, September 19. Four cases of smallpox were reported to-day. The Health Department is now-using a milder lymph, which gives immunity for a lesßer period, but is followed by no harmful effects. A well-known rider at unregistered race meetings, who became infected with the diseaso, rode at Victoria Park on Wednesday, and visited a city tailor's yestorday. He paid for a suit, and said: "Keep it till I come back—l amgoing into quarantine on an unpleasant trip." He has not yet reported himself, and his whereabouts are unknown.

TO LIFT THE QUARANTINE. DEBATE IN FEDERAL HOUSE. Melbourne September 19. In the Federal House of Representatives, Mr. Webster (New South Wales) moved that, with ai view to ending the suffering and sacrifice of human lifo, and the commercial, industrial, and domestio stagnation resulting from the quarantining of Sydney, tho proclamar tion be cancelled, and replaced by isolation and sanitary reform. Tie mover and other speakers drew a doloful picture of tho baleful effeots of vaccination, declaring that it had resulted in a number of deaths, and referred to the damaging results, of the proclamation on trade. They claimed that the outbreak was not true smallpox. 1 The debate was adjourned.