EPIDEMICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 59, 15 July 1913, Page 5

EPIDEMICAL.

A VACCINATION CRUSADE.

‘ONLY SURE ROAD TO SAFETY.”

[By Eleotrxo Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association,] Sydney July 14. The city is full of sore-armed voccinees. A number have been incapacitated for work. The authorities insist

that vaccination is the only sure method of checking the disease, and are insistent that the only sure road to safety is its universal application. Vaccination depots have been opened in various suburbs. The children of various schools, the staffs, and most business firms are being treated en masse. All the doctors are overworked and are reaping a rich harvest. Amongst the cases quarantined are two nurses, one from a city hospital, and one from another hospital. Everyone in the two institutions has been vaccinated.

A NIL VACCINATION CHALLENGE. An anti-vaccinator has challenged

the whole of the members of the Chamber of Manufacturers to publicly debate the question that vaccination is both useless and dangerous and does not benefit anyone excepting the doctors and undertakers. BETWEEN TWO STATES. Much confusion and delay has been caused by the insistence on the order that no train passengers from Victoria shall proceed beyond Albury without a certificate of successful vaccination. Many passengers have been turned back and others persisting in proceeding were forcibly ejected. Subsequently an order from Melbourne allowed them to proceed. Passengers by train from Brisbane have been reduced to a minimum.

A QUESTIONER IN LONDON

/T -,eceived 8.50. a.m.)

London, July 14

A correspondent writing to the Pall Mall Gazette asks what the Board of Trad® and the Port of London authority are doing to prevent smallpox being brought to England by means of the incoming mails and produce. AN ENFORCED .DELAY. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Sydney, July 15. The New - Zealand diversities footballers were Compelled to spend another week, ip Sydney on account of tlie smallpox epidemic. They play Sydney! 'University; idh! Wjodnesday, aad denart on Saturday.

TEN MORE CASES

The Health authorities discovered

late last night a family of five all down with smallpox, making a total of ten since yesterday.

MATAROA MAORI’S IN I |s [Per Press Association.] Marton, July 15. |!

A number of Maoris from Mataroa, || who arrived in Marton this morning, were detained to be vaccinated. Some jit complied, while others refused, hut the if latter wore allowed after inspection by £ the Health inspector to proceed.

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

FREE VACCINATION

J)r. Paget has received the following telegram from the Public Health Department: “Please arrange to vaccinate all natives in your district as soon as possible as it is necessary that no lymph should he wasted. Please cooperate with other public vaccinators. Also arrange to vaccinate Government officers and the public generally.”

There are not a great many natives in the district, and the local Health Inspector has been instructed from headquarters to bring all natives he can find to the Public Vaccinator.

As a good many people may have to be operated on, Dr. Paget lias arranged with the Mayor (M r W. P. Kirkwood), who lias kindly granted the use of the Borough Council Chambers as a place for public vaccination. Dr. Paget will attend at the Chambers on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Arrangements are being made this afternoon to place in the Chambers Dr. Paget’s sterilising apparatus and other conveniences for the operation of vaccination.

The New Plymouth Hospital Board is asking the Health Department to take the necessary steps to hare all boats at Xow Plymouth and Waitara

inspected on arrival 1 and departure.

AN ALLEGED CURE

A correspondent who has been reading the alarming accounts of tho outbreak of smallpox in Sydney and chick-en-pox—perhaps the same thing—in Auckland sends to tho editor of the Lyttelton Times a very old prescription of “a cure” for these loathsome diseases, which he set aside among his papers many years ago. “Take sulphate of zinc, one grain,” it runs, “foxglove (digitalis), one grain; onehalf a teaspoonful of sugar; mix with two tablespoonfuks of water. When tho above has been thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take a teaspponfut every hour.” The cure is said to he “as unfailing as fate,” and as harmless as water to “well persons.” The author of the prescription claims to have cured many patients “after learned physicians had said they must did.” land he promises the ‘counties’ that if

insist upon Its u*e they will hn.»* “a* seed of pest g->Usea.' ;