SMALL-POX SCARE IN SYDNEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 164, 12 July 1881, Page 4

SMALL-POX SCARE IN SYDNEY.

The Sydney correspondent of the N.Z. Times writes: — "We have at last been treated to a veritable visitation of sto all pox. In my last I reported a suppected case of this malady, the victim beiDg the half-caste child of a Chinese merchant All doubt has now been set at rest, for nofc only has ifc turned oufc that this child ie suffering from smallpox, bufc three other well ' authenticated cases bave been discovered. The first of these was tbat of slfffan who had been working i_f the vicinity qf the infected house, aqd who i had^beeif ill for a wetk" before Sedical attendance was called. This man has since died. The second case was that of a Chinaman who was discovered in a bouse at Waterloo, whither be had been conveyed from the city with e view to concealment. This son of the Flowery Land is in quarantine, in. a very bad state, but all fche efforts of the authorities to find out where be came from have been fruitless, as the Celestials, when questioned on the subject, all smilingly reply, "No savee." The third v&£sjffl&b of a woman who has been 4___^___B ear tbe Chinese quarter, audiHgjftpo. the infection onl f i° a infected patients Ere jHßGft)n board the whom they bafl^B^Kpntact are in quarantine. has been reported for_ thWH^Re days, and Meanwhile, tbe jRBBy slinks oi carbolic acid an^^HHtisinfectantP, and ba!f-H-d<_z-n V^^HBR busily employed nurin^ 'he children. -Seme ve 9^^Hv incident. ' have arisen out of The Chinese, rightly are blamed for the whoSHHHpd come in for a large eharefl^B^^ft They are not allowed on ; the Norlh Shore not allow* ihem to c]<oM aH^B ; the people refuse to from

the Chinese hawkers, but the innocent Chinkieß sell their vegetables wholesale to Europeans who serve them out second-hand. Two nights ago the whole of the passeDgers turned out of one of the B unter river steamers because some 20 Chinese bad come aboard, and lastly a box of lollies which had been eent from a Chinese merchant to a countryman at Albany, was seized by the Government official in that town lest it should contain the germs of smallpox. These instances wiil show to what an extent the scare has spread. In a month or two it will all be forgotten and people temporarily aroused from their lethargy and galvanised into a little cleanlines., will fall back into their old habits and wallow in filth and dirt Bufljeien. to generate a plague. The sit nation, however, is not made more pleasant by the reflection that the Ocean is due here with 450 Chinese, and that she had a case of smallpox on board when she first touched the Australian coast.