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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1930, Page 3

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y •- • PARTICULARS OF THE ’PATIENT. ALL ABOARD V'AOCTNATED. k 'y leiegi'apli—Press Assn., Copyright. AUCKLAND/ Feb. 24. The liner Aorangi, which was placed in quarantine on her"arrival Iro n Vancouver yesterday, when it was (oiuid there was a case of smallpo. • board, left the stream’ this morning, and anchored off the Quarantine Station on Motuihi Island in the Gulf. ’Pile patient is a married woman, age 3(1 years, and she booked ai Vancouver for .Sydney. An examination of her case to-day -confirrffis the original opinion that the disease had bon contracted in*, a mild form, am tho possibility of its spread is remote. One day out from Suva, the woman became ill. and the ship’s doctor, becoming suspicious of a serious intertious disease, at onco isolated the patient, who was travelling alone, and was the sole occupant of a cabin in the second class. From there till Auckland was readied, the strictest isolation was observed. To-day the patient was removed to the Quarantine' Station, her condition remaining the same. Ail the pasengers and crew of the Aorangi were vaccinated to-day. All except the first class travellers bound for Sydney, were landed on the Quarantine Station, and a thorough fumigation'of the ship was carried out. With the through passengers aboard the Aorangi will leave' Motuihi tomorrow morning, and return to Auckland'but will not berth here. About two hundred passengers for Sydney will embark, only about thirty of those who had hooked having' cancelled ,their passages. All these new passengers, if they wish to avoid the risk of detention at Sydney, will have to lie vaccinated before they board the ship. The remainder of the Aorangi’s English and American mail for New Zealand will he lauded to-morrow, but no cargo will he discharged. This will he carried on to Sydney, and later brought to New Zealand in' another steamer

There is some doubt to-night how long the passengers in quarantine will have to remain here. The Director General of Health, Dr Ya.lintine, has advised that all vaccinated can he released, but when they will he released is not known yet. Tlie ship will leave to-morrow under quarantine, and what will he done at Sydney is a matter for the Australian author i tes; hut it is state! that those vaccinat'd will bo released in Sydney, on surveillance. THE LATEST. AUCKLAND, Fob. 24. A telegram received by the Minister of Health, Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, from the Director-General of Healtli, Dr T. H. A. Valintine, states that passengers in quarantine would b-' discharged after vaccination in accordance with modern practice,

The Union Steamship Oompany has received a cablegram from the- health authorities in Sydney, stating that, any passenger who 'had successfully vaccinated within the past seven, years might be released under surveillance hirer arrival there. Telephone advice from Motuihi tonight was to the effect' that the quarantined passengers were comfortably housed and were receiving the best of attention from the staff appointed to look'after, them. A case .-, of dysentery was * found aboard the ship. It was disembarked and placed under treatment.