SMALLPOX.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 79, 7 August 1913, Page 5

SMALLPOX.

POSITION IN THE NORTH. FRESH CASES IN SYDNEY. [By Electric Telegraph—uopyrightJ [United Press Association.] Sydney, August 6. Four cases of small-pox were reported to-day, including another woman v. iio has been dodging the authorities. (Received 9.40 a.m.) Sydney, August 7. Owing to the discovery of a case of smallpox in the Sydney Hospital, only vaccinated visitors or others where the cases are urgent .are admitted. The steamer Warilda, which waylaid up owing to the smallpox epidemic, is being

STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE

[Per Press Association.] Wellington, August 6

Ln the House of Representatives to-day, dealing with the small-pox epi demic, the Minister for Public Health said that he had received a telegram from Dr. Te Rangihiroa stating thai the position in the north was becoming grave. It had been decided tt. send Dr. Valintine north without delay. They were watching all suspects, and had isolated all cases. Instruc tiona had been given to transport com panies not to allow Maoris who line not permits to travel. Maoris wen not allowed to travel beyond infected areas, whether fumigated or not. An ample supply of lymph is available. Some of the natives had not been vaccinated, it having been though! better to vaccinate those in infected areas first. Many chemists were acting as public vaccinators, an office not confined to medical men. The Depart ment was treating the disease af small-pox, and they were quitfc justi lied in doing so, owing to the loathsome nature of the disease.

THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN. The following small-pox bulletin was issued this evening by the Healti. Department:—Dr.-Monk reports tha no further cases have been reported in Auckland city and suburbs during the past twenty-four hours. Four fresh cases have been notified at Oto rohanga. No fresh cases arc reported from Kairara, near Kaihu, but amongst those ■ already notified several are very severe. , • Twenty fresh cases are reported from Mangaroa.

, ONnTHE EAST COAST. Tauranga, August 7. Another epidemic case was reported yesterday. The patient is a Maori at the Matapihi native settlement across the harbour. The settlement has been isolated. IN AUCKLAND HOSPITAL. _l „ Auckland, August 7. A European youth of 18 years o' age was received into the hospital on Sunday presumably suffering from peritonitis or pneumonia. He developed a rash,, and the doctors diagnosed it as a mild attack of smallpox The patient was removed to the isoia tion hospital. The ward occupied In the patient has been fumigated, and all the other patients numbering twenty were vaccinated. THE B.M.A. The Auckland branch of the B.M.A passed a resolution unanimously agreeing that smallpox was at present the epidemic in the community, and that the most effective means of combating and eradicating the disease was by universal vaccination.