The Small-Pox
— — « — • j A case of smallpox has occurred at , IrivercargiU. The sufferer is a child two ! years old, who arrived from the North per Te Anau at the Bluff two weeks ago. j She remained there till Thursday last, ! when her mother observing the symptoms brought the child by train to Invercargill hospital. The hospital doctor had suspicions from the first, and kept the j child in the fever ward at the rear of the j main building. At a special meeting on the wbjeet, it was stated that three j doctors had seen the child, and allapreed that the case was one of smallpox. The w child is now convalescent, and a com- %[ mittee was appointed to secure a house three or four miles from town so as to completely isolate any cases which may occur. The doctors believe that the disease was contracted on board the Te Anau, as the child had not been out of the colony, only having come from Port Chalmers to the Bluff. The child was ashore and playing about at the Bluff fcome days before the disease appeared.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 25, 12 August 1884, Page 3
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186The Small-Pox Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 25, 12 August 1884, Page 3
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