SMALL-POX AT NAPIER

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 214, 5 August 1884, Page 3

SMALL-POX AT NAPIER

(IJNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.) ""'"/. Wellington, August 4. The Government have instructed the .,,. authorities, at Auckland to quarantine the steamer Wailiora on her arrival 'there* Every precaution m to, be taken at Napier to prevent the infection spreading. ..,.;, Later. The Government have issued fresh regulations to the health authorities at each port* demanding that, on the arrival of a vessel from Victoria, a mo.*t stringent medical inspection be made of all on hoard, and, should any suspicious circumstances be discovered theve-sel, with her passengers, to be at once ordered into' quai*antine. it; Latest. Tfc ia considered that no possible danger of infection cbu arise from the case 1 of small-pox landed at Napier from the Waihora, as from the first the case was considered a very "suspicious one, and rigidly isolated. Stringent quarantine precautions have' been taken, and the patient, with the doctor, attendants, and all the necessary and other supplies, have been sent to the quarantine station, andra cordon of placed round to prevent communication with the rest of the district. The Health Board mefc to-day, and under the advice of their medical officer made all the * necessary arrangements for preventing the spread of the infection The name -oi* the patient suffering from small-pox is Andrew Mouatt He was lamp-trimmer on the Wai' hora, and shipped at Melbourne. . H. first 'felt the symptoms of indisposi tion shortly, before reaching Wellington. „,;; ,;.:,,., „.■....» . .■"".