TAKING NO RISKS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 51, 5 July 1913, Page 5

TAKING NO RISKS.

SYDNEY l® QUARANTINE.

THK SMALLPOX SCARE

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

Sydney, July 1

Twenty-one fresh and convalescent smallpox cases were quarantined today. All travellers by ship or rail from Sydney to the other States aro compelled to submit to vaccination. The health authorities have backed up the Government in tightening the smallpox precautions. Special notifica nous were issued to-night quarantining the Sydney district within a fifteen miles radius from the General Post Office, outside which no one is allowed to travel without a permit, _ The result will be a serious inconvenience to many business and other peolpe, and has caused some consternation.

The Prime Minister arrived in the quarantine area, from Melbourne today, and intends to return in a day or two. All leave on the warship-; has been stopped, and all aboard are being

vaccinated. Other States are adopting precautions to prevent a spread of the epidemic.

A PROGRESS REPORT

(Received 9.40 a.m.) Sydney, July 5

There are fifty-seven in quarantine. of whom twenty-one are in the hospital, though only one or two exhibit signs of serious illness. Nineteen are convalescent. Seventeen are actual house contacts, who will lie released if vaccination proves successful.