Outbreak of Small-pox in Napier

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 5 August 1884, Page 2

Outbreak of Small-pox in Napier

.... • - • .'. • .-'■• ■; i ':■■'- (FKB UNITED P&XM AMO^IATIOir.) ** Natieb, This Day. A ease of confluent smaiif-poxwM landed from the steamer WaJkera oa Saturday, and sent to the hospital. The nature of the disease was > suipWsd yesterday, and was confirmed to-dajr. The man is not expected to lire, He had. not been racinated. The jMayor iriral to the Colonial Secretary for in&cuotians, and also to the Mayors of Auckland and Gis borne, to warn tKem of (he TVaihora. Arrangements hare been madetoq^uiratf. tine the hospital, and to remore the case to the quarantine station. •'■-,"! I-..: •■•■." "Later. It is considered l that no possible dan-' ger of infection can arise from °fn£ eW of small-pox landed at Napier from tne Waihora,as from the first tHe case^ was considered a very suspicions one,- and rigidly, isolated.. Sfcrinfcenir qa'ar«ntine precautions have been taken, and the patient, with the doctor,' Attendants, and %11 the necessary and : otn^ supplies, h&Te r heen sent to the quarantine statiwy and a cordon of sentrieg placed round So prejentcommnnica^en w^th ."the jef t,,«£ ■I^ : di t^^f . ThejHeaWi '\ Aoa'rdfnl^t -&. -^ a Jf j«^ oMerJhe,-adr!<*>oof t£eibmedi cal officer made all the. necessary arma^. ments for prerenting-the spread of the infexrtion.' .^Cter -> name, ot -lfch»S pWent suffering from snratt-pbx is Andrew Mouatt. He Wasf -lamp' trimmer on the Wuibora, and shipped "at .}& flß4om£ He first 'felt the' symptoms' ■&\ss&£Ex shortly before rtaching WeJliiglbn. "T