SMALLPOX IN AUSTRALIA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 424, 30 November 1889, Page 6

SMALLPOX IN AUSTRALIA.

It is some time now since a vebsel ai riving from Euiope has had to undeigo the ordeal of a few weeks' stay at the Quarantine Ground, says the Sydney "Telegraph.' The M.M. steamer Yarra, which anived fiom Marseilles yesterday via the usual "port 0 , is the first to break the recoid of immunity which has so long been experienced. Already fiom Adelaide news has been telegraphed that one of the passengers named Paiker ha.d developed symptoms of small-pox. - It appears that the case was discovered by Dr. Verco, a North Adelaide physician, who was called in to attend Mr Parker shortly after the arrival of the steamer at La rgs Bay (S.A.) The doctor, on arrhal at the house where Mr Parker had gone to fcfcay, found that the patient was suffering fiom a modified form of tmallpox. On the arrival of the Yarra at Melbourne the health authorities there di&co\ered that a passenger named Hopkitison, who was believed to have some disease, was really convalescent from the complaint. On thebe facts becoming known to the Board of Health here, it was decided that pratique would not be yi anted until further inquiiic& had been made. It was decided that the Yarra together with her passengers and crew should be quarantined for 21 days from the date of Hopkinsons removal from the vessel at Melbourne. It was also rerolved that the passengers, cargo and mails for New Caledonia, including a portion of the crew, should be transhipped to the steamer Tanais to sail in quarantine for Noumea, and that the Tanais should carry a special certificate containing particulars as to her sanitary condition* This, information was addressed to the health authorities at Noumea, and as theie aie seveial French officers, soldiers and marine? on board, the consul was advised of the action which had been taken. There is not the slightest doubt now that the Adelaide case i.s one of smallpox. Yesterday further telegrams were received from the Board of Health of that city confirming the diagnosis which had previously been made. The Board is adopting every means to secure information as to the whereabouts of passengers who are believed to have come by train to Sydney, and it is hoped by the members that the authorities in Victoria and South Australia are taking ptecautions* to isolate persons who may have landed from the steamer in either of those colonies. The persons on board the Yarra comprised the following: -Crew, 1(58; passengers lor Sydney, 31 ; soldiers, marines and officers, 210 ; making a total of 409. A telegram from Melbourne says : The Government medical officer, assisted by two other doctor?, carefully examined Hopkinson, the passenger by the Messageries Maritimes steamer \arra, and decided that the disease he had been suffering from was undoubtedly smallpox. They state that all danger of infection has passed.

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