ALL CLEAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1865, 26 September 1913, Page 7

ALL CLEAR.

r AT THE ISOLATION HOSPITAL, As everyone knows, Wellington has been fortunate in the immunity from the epidemio. Only three very light cases were brought to the isolation ward for treatment. These wero the' maid employed in the household of Mr. Vernon Reed, M.P., and two men from the country, who had, it wap Assumed, been infected by. association with contacts from the north. The isolation ward is now empty, The last case—that of a man from the lower Manawatu district—was discharged with a clean bill of health three days ago. A good' many people have been under the impression that tho smallpox patients have been treated in the Isolation Hospital at Berhampore— tho building erected by tho City Council at the timo of the plague scare, some twelve years ago. That is not so. The three Wellington cases have been dealt with in the isolation ward in connection with (but separated from) the Infections Diseases Hospital,, and is in charge of the matron of that institution, Mis 3 Polden. Yesterday's official bulletin states: — The District Health Officer, Auckland, reports: No fresh cases in Auckland, or suburbs, or district. , DOCTOR'S PREDICTION. (By .Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, September 25. "If there is another smallpox epidemio in the north it will be the Europeans and not the Maoris who will suffer," declared Dr. Rangihiroa, member of Parliament for the Northern Maori electorate! who has just rotumed from medical work in the Kaikohe district. "The Maoris," he added, "have rushed to be vaccinated because they observed the immunity of vaccinated persons. In no case has a person who had been successfully vaccinated contracted the disease, and had there been a fair pro*' portion of vaccinated persons, there would not have been nearly'such a severe epidemic." There have been 700 or 800 cases of smallpox in tho district, and about twenty deaths. In some of the worst parts half tho population was affeoted, but the epidemic is now well tinder and, in 22 villages, there have been no fresh cases for over three weoks. There have been fresh cases in Dnly three places and practically all the. 'old patients have been given a clean bill of health.