THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 5

THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT ALIVE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright j [United Press Association.] Sydney, August 19. In the first prosecution arising out of the smallpox epidemic, a man was fined £3O for failing to report that his son was infected. FOURTEEN FRESH CASES. Thirteen cases of smallpox were reported to-day. It is not known definitely ; whether the Balranald case is smallpox. It is feared that the disease is working its way north, it being reported at a late hour that a girl aged eleven has a suspicious illness at Tamworth. There is a mild case at Cootamundra. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, August 20. , There is one fresh smallpox case, a patient in the city hospital. N.Z. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. [United Press Association.] Wellington, August 19. The following smallpox bulletin was issued to-night:— The district health officer at Auckland (Dr. Monk) reports that no fresh cases have been reported in Auckland since yesterday’s report, and no frsh cases are reported from the country districts. The cases reported from Onewhere, yesterday, wore found, on investigation, to be cases previously reported. The district health officer at Wellington (Dr. Chesson) reports having removed to the isolation hospital at Wellington, last night, a sailor from the s.s. Delphic, who was recently a resident at the Sailors’ Home, Auckland. The s.s. Delphic has been ordered into quarantine and steps have been taken, and arc being continued, to insure the vaccination and surveillance of all contacts with this case. Steps have also -been taken to investigate; any suspicions illness in the Sailors’ Home, Auckland.