TYPHUS FEVER AT MATATA, BAY OF PLENTY.
The cutter Julia arrived last night from Matata, Bay of Plenty, and the master of her reports that typhus fever had been raging there for 4 or 5 weeks before he left; and that 60 Maories ami several Europeans, amongst-■■■•whom were his own wife and mother, had died from it. This is startling intelligence, and it calls for immediate action by the authorities to prevent communication with vessels arriving from that locality. Surely our quarantine regulations must be very imperfect, that no provision is made for excluding vessels by which a contagious, and often fatal disease might be introduced amongst us; and it shows great, almost criminal disregard of public safety on the part of the master of this vessel in venturing within the harbour under such circumstances. The matter is one of so serious an aspect that we feel bound to call attention to it thus prominently, that steps may be taken at once to provide for the safety of the public. —Daily Southern Cross, Dec. 4.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 152, 11 December 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)
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175TYPHUS FEVER AT MATATA, BAY OF PLENTY. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 152, 11 December 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)
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