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SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY* THE EPIDEMIC REVIEWED.By TeleffrapU-I'ress Aeaoclalion—OopyripUl Melbourne, November 2G. Tlio Federal Executive lias authorised the immediate lifting of Sydney's smallpox embargo, Sydney, November 17. During the smallpox epidemic there wore lOlfi eases in New South Wales, but no deaths. One. woman died wliik) a patient in quarantine, but the doctors did not attribute that to smallpox, though slic had been from tho disease. Tlio youngest patient was seven clays old'; the oldest eighty yea re. There al-o only sixty oases still in'quaraittinc. During the epidemic the authorities also met with over three thousand eases of chicken pox and'a large number of other skin diseases. The authorities state definitely that no deaths were duo 'to vaccination, though over half'a million persons were vaccinated-. Inquests were hold in three eases, and the Coroner in each case had found thai death could not bo attributed to vaccination. Only about 8 per cent, of tlio patients were permanentlv marked on the face. For the present New Zealand passengers must conform to ih-> old regulations, and produce certili. .tos of successful vaccination or of iiirco unsuccessful vaccinations.
MGlbOllFne, November 2". A paper issued by the. Federal Health Department says that the- figures of the Sydney epidemic prove the efficacy of vaccination—9s.3 per cent. of patients were vaccinated, and 4.7 were vaccinated in infancy or over thirteen years ago. No person successfully vaccinated within a period of thirteen' roars had been attacked. Out of 132 contacts who did not develop the disease, 22 had been vaccinated over 1.0 years ago, 02 had- been vaccinated about tlio time of admission to quarantine, and' tlio other 19 were immune. (lice. November 28, 0.30 a.m.)' SydriOy, November 2?. One case of smallpox was repotted in the citj l to-day,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 7
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295COURSE ALMOST RUN. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 7
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