The Small-pox

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 23, 7 August 1884, Page 2

The Small-pox

♦ -_ (FEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, This Day. At a special meeting of the Port Chalmers Conncil yesterday the following telegiam from the Under-Secretary at Wellington was received : -=•" Mouatt the patient (lamp-trimmer of the s,s. .Waihora) lives at Port Chalmers with bis wife and family, and when passing through left his clothes to be washed. The police are instructed to burn the clothes and keep the house under surveillance. I am directed to injiinate this to your Worship as chairman of the local Board of Health, as it may become your duty to take some steps in case the infection should have -been oommunicated through the clothes' The patient _ himself . was not" considered dangerous whea at Port Cholmers.__[ , _*r council appointed two special opintablos to watch the house and keep IV strictly quarantined. The yellow flag is flown from it. - • Napier, Thi* Day. ' At a meeting of the Board of , Health last night a letter was read from Dr Jackson, at the quarantine station," that the patten-' is progressing favorably. The Mayor said he intended to release the hospital from quarantine as -soon $s it was known all persons there were vaccinated successfully. The Mayoir read the following telegram from the .Premier: — " Major Atkinson sefiasybi^his best thanks for the prompt and very judicious steps you have taken'in the matter of the small-pox -patient, and hopes-that-the result may be. as /^ucoessful Ssithey deserve. He has yap. sugge^ipn t^make where everything possible seems toTliave been done." ' ' • • «s-~-».