The Smallpox
On Thursday last we said that it was possible a person flying from Victoria in dread of the smallpox might land in .New Zealand and introduce that pestilence. What wo then surmised as .possible has actually happened. A passenger by the Union s.s. Waihora has, through the folly aud red-tapeism of the Government, been allowed to land in Napier, who has shown clearly that he is dangerously ill of the disease. This steamer had passed "the rigorous examination" of the Wellington Health Officer, and been sent on her way as perfectly clean nnl healthy. As the smallpox is now implanted in the Colony, it :8 impossible to foresee where it will end, and the colonists will remember with feelings of sorrow and anger that it was implanted only through the blundering and incapacity of their public servants.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 5 August 1884, Page 2
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139The Smallpox Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 5 August 1884, Page 2
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