SMALL POX IN SYDNEY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 586, 19 July 1913, Page 5

SMALL POX IN SYDNEY.

EFFECT OF VACCINYTION. PRECAUTION AT MELBOURNE. ILv TYlcirraph." ITcb, Copj HfclU Received Friday, 9.25 p.m. Sydney, Friday. All the vaccination depots are again very busy, as was foreshadow id, compulsory measures hav.ing this effect. Many vaccinees are having a bad time and large numbers are absent from work, being unable U> uso their arms. This is proving a serious handicap in business houses. The authorities stale nearly all the patients bo far had never been vacci- | natcd, and add that anyone recently vaccinated would resist the present epidemic. Melbourne, Friday. Five vaccinal ion depots have been opened ;md there is a great rush of applicants. A TOOWOOMHA CASE. Sydney, This Day. The Sydney police, force is much reduced owing to vaccinations over two hundred being off duly. The newspaper office staffs are similarly reduced, numbers of pressmen being hors de combat. Everywhere in the the streets people are cautiously nursing the left arm. There are many complaints concerning the doctors' too free use of lymph,, tubes which should be sufficient for a dozen are exhausted on less than half a dozen. Brisbane, This Day. A mnn it Tonwoombi, who arrived from Sydney three weeks ago, developed supposed small pox. He was isolated and the strictest precautions were taken. SYDNEY STATISTICS. Received this day 9.15. Sydney, This Day. Since the contagion first became known 288 cases of small pox have been treated whereof lifly-five patients and ltil convalescents are still quarantined and sixty-nine have been discharged. Mr llolman, Prime Minister, states the Compulsory Vaccination Bill will apply to contacts only. The Maheno's passengers) and creW were examined and those not ruccoshfully vaccinated were revaccinated before release. Melbourne, This Day. Fifty thousand have been vaccinated , only a few or (be Kamla's contacts are untraced. No further cases are reported. Hobarl. This Day. The statement that Iho Monganui had four of the Kamla's passengers aboard, though official, has now been proved groundless. No passengers from the affected area landed here.