SICKNESS ABOARD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 7

SICKNESS ABOARD

-Presa Association.)

Liners Held Up in Stream TWO NOTIFIABLE CASES

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. j Each possessing a case of notifiable siekness "aboard, the liners Orion and Maripo'sa were obliged to anchor in fhe stream to await the granting r)f medical' pratique upon their arrival at Auckland: from Brisbane and San Francisco respectively to-day. With both flying the., yellow quarantiue flag, they were a. source of conjecture on the waterfront until permission to berth was granted by. the port health officer. Only slight delay was caused in the case of the Mariposa, which was temporarily quarantined on account of her possessing a case of chickenpox. The patieht, ' who was a young Auckland girl, and her mother, were placed in isolation shortly after the tessel left Honolulu, and it was found unnepesgary to postpone berthing. A miid casp qf mpasleg vf&s discovered abpard the Qrion, and few of her' 860 passengers were aware that. her short stay in the stream waS UQt patt of the intended programme, During the run to New Zealand a young man also developed symptoms of ecute appendicitis, and shortly after the liner berthed he was removed to £he. Auckland Hospital, ,, .