SMALL PON IN HONGKONG. THE DISEASE INCREASING.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 264, 16 May 1888, Page 6

SMALL PON IN HONGKONG. THE DISEASE INCREASING.

Ri ii \t new t norn I him -titr- The r pi' 1 , mir or -hk!l])O\ m Hoti^koivr >.- -till ii , a-iivj 1 . l>imir_r the hi-t tin oe weekof lu-t jiiOMt h the death- horn f 11 1 11 ■ — di-t a-e wiU'-cvcnu I'iuhl, -nt\ i l^ht and n^ht\ -(.Ncn, i c~pecii\cl\ . .mil t<il>!c~ )>ic paid I>\ the ."Mint ui v lii-ptct*"'! -huv. thai in ik a- h two thud- of the < .'im- lOfOittil death occu,- The di-ea-r -ixm- to h.i\e bioken out -hoitl) .iftci the ]übilu cllo biation-, but whtthei they had an vthini: to dv with the biincrin'_ r nt it into the rolotiy 01 not i-i not \ci\ doai. Atnhow. an outbic'ik of •sinallpiK -i/ ea)l\ in the v, intci -ea-on i- phtnomuial. The <";o\tin nv.nl i- no \ t,ikin ( , r \ iszui mi- ,-tepto ti\ and i°pie-- H inciCiT-ed hopital aucommod.ition ha- Ijllh pio\id'd: Ihe notititation of ea-e- ot -mallpox i- made coinpul-013 ; \aceination station- ha\e b^cn e-tabh-licd at ■\aiioui^laecT in the town and colony; the natne wa-hrimen ha\e iceeived a -upph oi di--intcctant iliud iiom the 1 ;<>\rinment j^iabis with which lo di-infeei flothc- that come Into then hand-, and the hou-e- therein co-e- of .-mallpov ha\e oceuiied aie fumi jratcd immediately on the remo\c.l of a ])atiei)t \\ith buinin^r sulphui.