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By Telegraph—l’rcs-i on---Copyright Launceston. June 2A. The re has been :-evera.l eases ol supposeil mt-u-Us ut tiie hospital lately. Gn the sth ins;, a p;.tu uc named Duggan died. Nai>e Cash subsequently developed similar symptoms, ami died yesterday. Tile disease has been diagnosed a small-pox. Two porters, another nurse-; anil laundress at the hospital have a,?c been attacked, but are now convalescent.' Three other cases are reported ill ,uiU rent pans ol ill,; town. Theou.ar.uk of small pox has caused coustei nation. Tin doctors are much blamed lor Ailing e'.iutr ‘o diagnose earlier or keeping tile liatuie of tile disi-asO concealed. The source of the outbreak is a mystery. A passenger by tin Gracchus has been in the town for several weeks, but daily reported himseif to tiie doctors, who failed to discover suspicious symptoms.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 924, 24 June 1903, Page 2
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