SMALLPOX.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 6 September 1913, Page 3

SMALLPOX.

SEAMEN IN TROUBLE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Sydney, September 5. Two seamen of the steamer Ken: wore sentenced jto' seven days' hard labor for disobeying the captain's or-; dors to be vaccinated. The accused submitted that they ha'd^been vaccinated: in New Zealand and'had sore arms in consequence. ' AiiOtJidr inoculatibii would interfere' with -then work as stokers. The'captain stated that ho' was 1 unable to 'obtain his cloar-•aiicc-papers unles's all 1 the crew were vaccinated. ' ! ' •' ' • : •■'■ ' ' ' (^Received'lo.lo a.ni:) >'• ' ': ■ '■ : '■'■'.- Sydney/iSeptember-*6\ i The'charges declared' that the rest of the crew were vaccinated, but immediately worked off the lymph. THE DISEASE IN AUSTRALIA. - Seven smallpox cases were reported to-day in the ! metropolitan area. The' cas'e-'a't Young isWof'smalf-' pox. Sixty patient* are'''ho*" ' in' quarantine-.'' '"' 5 Brisbane, September 5.' Queensland is practically free from smallpox, one sufferer only remaining. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. • ; Wellington, September 5. The following smallpox bulletin wa.\ issued this evening:—"No cases arc reported from Auckland City .inv suburbs-. Ono case is reported a Mercer, from a, previously-infected; house. Five crises are reported from Alvipara, 13 miles from Kaitaia."

CLEAN BILL FOR WAIKATO. Cambridge, September 6. The Health Department announces that the smallpox outbreak in tin. M'aungatauiari district, where the epidemic was experienced in a severe form, is now quite abated. There have been no fresh cases for some weeks, and all the sufferers are convalescent. A pass has been given t« one native in each pah to come to town and purchase food supplies. The wharcs have been thoroughly disinfected, and where considered too insanitary for habitation they have been destroyed by fire. During the currency of the epidemic no Europeans were affected.