Despatch from the AGENT GENERAL.
SUSPENSION OF IMMIGRATION OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER on an EMIGRANT SHIP. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION".) Wellington, April 27. The Agent* General, m his despatch under date March Ist, states that he has now suspended forwarding immi« grants .to the colony umil June, and ha 3 withdrawn the alvertisements inviting applications. He mentions that the ship Oxford, bound for Wellington, which was dismasted m the Bay of Biscay, was to embark emigrants on the 30th ot March. Dr Hasard, who is m <-har .c of the emigrants, reports that on rhe 9ch of March typhoid fever had broken out, but there were only a few ! cases. A young woman, namori Sarah I Stewart, who was one of the first to be attacked with the disease, had died, and another young wotnao wts dangerously ill. The other cases were progressing favorably, and the doctor believed there would be no further spread ot the disease. He attributed the attack to the immigrants, during the last few days they i were on the Oxford, using water from j the reserve tmka. The Agent General I instructed the Company to have the tanks pumped out, and to lake all pre» cautions against the recurrence ot the disease. The inquiries respecting the colony, he says, are on thn increase.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 121, 28 April 1883, Page 2
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217Despatch from the AGENT GENERAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 121, 28 April 1883, Page 2
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