THE EPIDEMIC.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 587, 23 July 1913, Page 4

THE EPIDEMIC.

SPREADING AT AUCKLAND. KING COUNTRY CASES. The epidemic which broke out among the natives if North Auckland, and has since spread over an e itended area, is still racing though the scopn of the disease has been fairly well restricted. Everything considered very few Europeans'have become infected, and hopes are entertained that the steps taken by the authorities to prevent, the disease spreading will prove ellicacious. The isolation hospital at, Auckland has now over forty cases being treated, and vaccination throughout, the district is being carried out an fast as possible. The outbreak at, Tarawwa near Tc Avramutu it? confined to the Maoriß and stringent precautions have been adopted to prevent it, spreading. The disease there lias developed in a virulent form and one death has already taken place. The three cases at (Uorohanga are progressing satisfactorily and hopeß are entertained that the outbreak there will be confined to the cases specified. A case has been reported from Matapuna, near Taumarunui, the patient being a Maori woman. No further developments have been reported from Mangapehi and Wai--111 ilia.

Hamilton, This Day. While small pox in spreading in Waikato, Hamilton is still unaffected. A had case was brought in yesterday from Matangi. The patien'. i an elderly native* and the disease is in a very advanced stage. He wus isolated in the Waikato Hospital. The rush lor vaccination continues and up to the present it is estimated :?000 have submit!ed themselves in the. Upper Waikato, 700 at; Hamilton, 200 at Cambridge, and 2000 in Waipa County. Vaccinators at Tw Awamntu have been instructed to visit, the schools of the district at which a largo number of native children attend. OFFICI Ah BULLETIN. {Wellington. This Day. An official bulletin state six Maoris from one house at Mangere have been admitted to the Auckland isolation hospital. There arc now <IC> cases isolated and fifteen pronounced cases in other parts of the Auckland province. A stnail isolation hospital has been established at Parawera. There is a sjspecteri case at Tanj'i terorin. on tho Northern Wa iron river, and a European case n reported ml Huntly. Two further deaths, both native:;, have occurred at Maungalaularj. The Wellington and Pahiatua cases arc progressing favourably. During tho past week !). r >(),000 riosns of lymph have been distributed from (the Government laboratory and it is hoped an additional ,'Jii.OOO inoculations will be available to distribute to the men to-morrow. British South -Africa has put forward a new railway programme of T'.l l.f miles, to cos! a;:!, !00,<MI0, in eluding roiling Block. The gauge is