THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 30 September 1913, Page 6

THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

IN SYDNEY.

[Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Pem* Association.]

Sydney, September 29. Six fresh cases ,of smallpox were reported to-day* and; there is a suspectad; case at Grafton. - s

QUARANTINE IN SYDNEY. (Received 10,15 a.m.) ’ , v < Sidney, September 30. , The Customs and the ! ' .acthopities discussed the remoyal.o|,quarantine in Sydney, but it is iip(lerstood the conference was incOpchisive owing to the Federal authorities insisting that the’Vaccma-'-h tioq pill must be amended to give the Board of Health compnli&ry power to vaccinate everyoiie in a quarantine area.

BREAKING QUARANTINE.

* [Pan Paata Association.] ' Auckland, September 29. • Tree cases at the Police Court this morning had to do with the epidemic at Orakei and the precautions taken

I>y the Health Department to prevent its, spreading, A native named Tame Tauna' was charged that on August 27 y , beihg the occupier of a house in the Orakei health district, in which Takatai Tbhana was found sick of an infectious" disease, he had neglected to 'notify the authorities. Mr Frazer. S.Mm, iaid that undoubtedly other

Maoris'had been clever over the matter, hut according to the evidence defendant had given some sort of notice the. da*y after he was left in charge of the house, and his Worship not dd more than convict him aild' order him to pay the costs. . James M. Galvin, a resident of Orakeiadmitted that on September 2 he entered the Orakei native pa, when it was infected With smallpox.' Inspector McGrath said that Galvin lived close to the p'a, and Well knew it was isolated, but he deliberately rode through the pa after having been warned. Galvin was fined £2 and 19s costs, *. Edward Simpkins, who happened to he riding* within the precincts of the Orakei settlement when a quarantine pt*oCldmatioii descended on it, committed'the indiscretion on September 5 of taking a walk to the wharf, which was outside the isolated area; On his way back he met a constable, who was on guard, and in view of the fact that only half-an-hour previously Simpkins had been warned not to go to the wharf, - the man was prosecuted for leaving quarantine. He was fined £2 and *7s costs.