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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 6 August 1913, Page 5

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THE SMALLPOX SCARE. THE, EPIDEMIC IN AUSTRALIA. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] . Sydney, August 5. Five cases of smallpox were reported in the city to-day, including a girl 12 years old, at the Sydney Hospital, who is supposed to have got the infection from her brother while visiting him. The authorities found a woman who had smallpox had been dodging them for a week.

CHICKENPOX AT ARMIDALE. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Sydney, August 6. The suspected case of smallpox at Armidale has been diagonised as chickenpox. THE LYMPH NOT IMPURE. • The Medical Gazette, referring to the recent rumors that many severe cases of vaccination reactions were due to certain impurities in the lymph, declares that there is absolutely no evidence that the local or New Zealand lymph is infectious in any other way than it is intended to be. HUGE VACCINATION FIGURES. (Received 9.30 a.m.) It is estimated that 340,000 being one-half of the total population of the metropolitan area, have been vaccinated. N.Z. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. A DEATH IN AUCKLAND. [Pes Press Association. J Wellington, August 5. The following smallpox bulletin has been issued by the Health Department to-night:— The district health officer at Auckland, Dr. Monk, reports that a second case in Auckland was removed from a house reported infected yesterday afternoon, and one suspicious case has been removed to isolation. Of the . country districts, there is a European case reported from Mapara, eight fresh Maori cases (one death) have been reported from Taupiri, and two fresh cases from Waiheke. The fresh cases have; induced a re-demand for i There is no foundation whatever for any reports of a case lim the! South Island.; • . . ,- .i

op ONE LEFT. 'A pretty clear example of the value of vaccination is shown by the following (states the Sydney Daily Telegraph) :—Scene: The Health Department. Dr. Armstrong (at telephone): "Yes. What? Another case? Yes. A gilr. Yee. Ten in the household ? ■What? Yes. The only one unvacciniated, eh? Yes. All the rest done a fortnight'ago, you say? Well,'well. Poor girl, poor girl: Still, of course, she's paying' the penalty of neglect. What? Friends advised her to be vaccinated? Of course; quite so. Yes. Not very well, eh? Poor girl, poor girl. Pity she couldn't have been done." The doctor laid down the receiver and turned his head. "There, you see," said he. "There's one of this morning's cases j a lady, one of a household of ten. She was the only one unvaccinated; she wasn't strong; and now she's got smallpox. Poor girl." ,