23,000 VACCINATED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 5

23,000 VACCINATED.

THE SMALLPOX SCARE.

SUSPICIOUS CASES IX THE COUNTRY.

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

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

Sydney, July 8

• It looks as if the precaution* to restrict the outbreak of smallpox in the Sydney area will be unavailing. Three suspicious cases were reported in three separate country centres. The authorities anticipate its spread, but no increase in virulence. So far, 23,000 have been vaccinated, including the Lord Mayor and many members of Parliament.

The staffs of business firms are vaccinating wholesale. Forty-eight persons were quarantined to-day, whereof ten were patients and 38 convalescents and contacts. There are now 191 in quarantine, consisting of 67 patients, 61 convalescents, and 63 contacts.

The authorities hope to-morrow to discharge a considerable proportion of the contacts whose vaccination has been successful, and probably eight or nine convalescents, who now are free from infection.

Supplies of lymph have arrived from Melbourne and New Zealand. Tents will be used as public depots for vaccination. No lymph will he available this week for private practitioners.