VACCINATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 68, 25 July 1913, Page 5

VACCINATION.

HOW IT SHOULD “TAKE. 9 ’

MEDICAL MAN’S STATEMENT

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

There is much uncertainty among people who have been vaccinated recently as to tho signs by which they may know whether the vaccine ha “taken” or not. A medical man stated, in response to a New Zealand Times’ reporter’s inquiries, that tnc effects of vaccination vary, depending upon the natural immunity to small pox, and to vaccination acquired b. the subject ancestrally, or by previou: vaccination in infancy. Taking a nor mal case, a red spot should appear a the point or points of scarification a the end of the third day, counting th day of tho operation as the first day This spot should increase in size, an by tho fifth or sixth day should forr. a vesicle containing watery-lookin; material. The vesicle should increar, in size up to about the eighth da; and about that period a red bam should appear surrounding the vesicle and increasing in size for the nex day or two. At the sime time th clear fluid which was in the vesicle should have become opaque and thick and by the tenth or eleventh day th inflammatory symptoms should begi to subside, and the vesicles begin i dry up and turn a. brownish color. A the end of a fortnight a reddish brow incrustation; should he formed, whic should gradually shrink and fall ofi somewhere about the twenty-first da; A scar should remain, pink at firs but afterwards turning to white, whic should bo slightly hollow or depress ed, circular in shape, and dotted wit small indentations.

ATTRIBUTED TO CUBA. [By Electric Telegraph—copyright [United Press Association.] Sydney, July 24. Dr. Paton now claims smallpox cam from Cuba, when it spread rigb across the United States and reaclu Australia and New Zealand,by one (. the Vancouver mail boats. He adi that “at any rate, New Zealand d not get it from us.” ■IN* THE SYYDXEY DOMAIN.

Five cases of smallpox were reporte to-day, all young men, one being fro. the Domain who has no permanei abode.;,.,, . , ,

~ A- caso .at Grenfell has been dia<; nosed as ,smallpox. , ( ,

NO SCARE IN MELBOURNE

Melbourne, July 24

The scare has subsided and the va< cination bureaux are empty, D Cumpstou is of opinion that Me bourne can be declared a clean cit; If the passenger by the Karoola wh developed smallpox there had ihfec ed anybody, the disease would now I noticeable. Nearly all the Karoohv passengers have been released fro quarantine.

A CASE IN ADELAIDE,

Adelaide, July 24

A woman in the Hawthorne subui has developed smallpox. She visitc Sydney recently.

THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN

[Per Press Association.] Wellington, July 24

The following official bulletin, dea ing with the smallpox outbreak, wa issued by the Health Department* 9.30 this evening:—“There are i cases isolated at the infectious diseas; hospital at Auckland, ten being Eur< peans. Dr. Te Rangihiroa, M.P., r< ports some 72 cases in the Bay of L lands district, four being acute an 18 convalescent. Dr. Cawkwell report from Tautoro that the disease is mor evident among young people. A cas is reported at Whangarua. Dr. Ros reports that he has vaccinated 40 persons in the Raglan district. I)i Couzens is at Tekohi. He has seen n suspicious cases. There is an ampl supply of lymph available.—l'. H. R Valintine, Chief Health Officer.

STAMPING OUT 'THE DISEASE

DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT

Wellington, July ‘24

In the House of Representatives to night Mr G. W. Russell asked th Minister for Public Health whether !i was quite satisfied that everything pos sihle was being done in connection wit; the outbreak of smallpox. He hope* that expense would not be stinted ir the matter. He favored unlimited ex penso in stamping out the disease. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes said thal

the Health Department was doin; everything possible to prevent th< spread of the disease. He was quit' certain that they must treat the dis ease as smalloox. To date, ten death; had been reported, all being natives Dr. Newman said there was onh one remedy—that was vaccination. The Hon. R. hi. Rhodes, replying said that the Cabinet considered daih the matter of insisting on vaccination before pasesngers communicated be tween the two Islands. All the Maori councils were actually cleaning up the kaingas. If found necessary, he would recommend to the Cabinet the isolation of tbe North Island. That depended mainly on whether any more case* occurred in Wellington.