Small-Pox.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 208, 13 August 1884, Page 2

Small-Pox.

FRESH CASES. MAKING PREPARATIONS. [Reuter’s Telegrams.) Melbourne, August 12. Four additional cases of small-pox have occurred here. [Per Press Association) . Wellington, August 13. In a supplement to the Gazette published to-night, are sections of the “ Public Health Act, 1876,” defining the power and duties of local boards of health. There is also a notification that Government are desirous of obtaining a supply of pure vaccine lymph from the calf, delivered at various centres. Dunedin, August 13. The reported case of small-pox near Port Chalmers turns out to be only one of severe cold. Christchurch, August 18. Yesterday the quarantine station at Ripa Island, Lyttelton, was inspected, with a view to its occupation in the event of small-pox cases occurring, and the master and matron were vaccinated. Auckland, August 13. The Waihora will probably be admitted to pratique on Saturday.

A correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury declares that one ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in one pint of boiling water, and drunk when cold at short intervals, is a sure prophylactic and cure for small-pox. The period, locality, or manner in which variola or small-pox first made its appearance is not known, but it is known to have existed in Europe in the sixth century. Its characteristicts and symptoms have unfortunately become now so well known that any description of the disease would be superflous. The confluent form in which it has appeared in this colony, is one of the more severe forms of the disease ; but it is not necessarily fatal, as is the case with vesicular or malignant small-pox, from both of which forms recovery is rare. After successful re-vaocination smallpox is practically unknown.