SMALLPOX.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 20 September 1913, Page 6

SMALLPOX.

IX SYDNEY. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Sydney, September 19. Four smallpox cases wore reported to-day. The Department is now using milder lymph, which gives immunity in a lesser period but is followed by no harmful effects. A well-known rider at unregistered race meetings was infected. He rode at Victoria Park on Wednesday and visited a city tailor’s yesterday and paid for a suit. He said: “Keep it till I come hack. .1 am going into quarantine on an unpleasant trip.” He has not yet reported himself, and his whereabouts are unknown.

A DOCTOR FIXED

[Per Press Association.] Auckland, September 19

For charging a fee of 5s each for vaccinating two people, Dr. W. S. Brockway was fined £2 at the Police Court to-day. Defendant admitted charging the fee, but said that he believed that' the operation was only free when performed in a place authorised for public vaccination. He had not charged the two vaccinations against the Government.

LAST NIGHT'S BULLETIN

■Wellington, September 19

To-night’s smallpox bulletin, issued by the Health Department, states that the District Health Officer at Auckland reports that one European case in Auckland City was removed to the Point Chevalier Isolation Hospital, and that two Maori cases had been reported from Kaikohe.

REPORT FROM WHANG ARE!

■Whangarei, September 20

Dr. F raser Hurst, Superintendent of the Whangarei Hospital, reports that there are no infectious patients now in the isolation ward. There are only two cases in the whole county, and they are in the convalescent stage in a remote Maori Kainga Hospital. By conjunction with the Maori Council, we are now making a summer campaign by fumigation and the destruction of infected huts. It is expected that the restrictions now placed upon the movements of Maoris will be entirely removed -'.'bn a monc-i.