SMALLPOX.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 69, 26 July 1913, Page 5

SMALLPOX.

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

N.Z. OFFICIAL BULLETIN

[Per Press Association.]

Wellington, July 25. The official smallpox bulletin issu

at S. o'clock this evening is as follows: 'There are 54 cases in the'Auckland Hospital, 12 being Europeans. Dr. Sawkwell reports the case of a half caste at the temporary hospital Kaikobe. With this exception the othe cases there are doing well. At Matarana there are 15 convalescents anc one woman sickening. Three sus peeled cases are reported at Orakei Dr. To Rungihiroa reports three acnt< cases and 15 convalescents at th< smallpox camp at Ngawha Springs. A' it is impossible to keep the cases iso l.ated in the villages, it has been decided to establish an isolation camp at Ngawha. In his report. Dr. T< Rangihiroa states that there is a mass of evidenco accumulating with regar; to the immunity afforded by vaccina tion, and quotes a case of a father mother, and eight children. Where three of the children were vaccinated they were not affected, whilst thr other members of the family contract ed the disease. Dr. Ross is at Whaka wb.aka, where several cases arc re ported. No fresh cases have been reported from the Waikato."

SEW ZEALAND LYMPH

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright

(United Press Association.]

Sydney, July 25

It is stated officially that one consignment of New Zealand lymph ha: jeen so purified that all the cowpox had purified out of it. In a trial at Sydney only one case took out of six

QUARANTINE ENFORCED AT

SUVA

Suva, July 25

In response to a public demand, the Government is proclaiming vigorous quarantine regulations to-morrow.

FURTHER CASES IN SYDNEY

Six cases of smallpox were reported in tho metropolitan area to-day. Ono' came from a house in a filth. condition, and it is suggested that thf local authorities should make a house-to-house visitation. The case fron Xyngan is proved to be a smallpox case, and that, from .Carcoan is doubt, fut: '' rji;-i ■ .: -

TRACING. THE : DISEASE

(Received 9.30 a.m. ) Sydney, July 26. A smallpox patient quarantined ai Newcastle refuses to' giyo informatioi as to where ho came from, but thf police suspect that he arrived from Auckland by the steamer Canada, vi;". the Cape. ■

NEEDLESS ALARM

Melbourne, July 20

Dr. Makgill, in getting a report concerning the supposed smallpo: patient at Adelaide, found that the latter was suffering from nettlerash onlv.

OFF "THE BEAT."

Brisbane, July 26. One of the smallpox patients is a policeman.