SMALL-POX.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 200, 25 June 1903, Page 3

SMALL-POX.

i PBB PBKBS ASSOCIATION. I Lauscksto.v, June 24. There were five fresh cases of small pox in town yesterday, including , Dector Bernard, House Surgeon of the ' Hospital. The houses and patients are isolated and every preciution is taken. The Union Company irsists that all passengers applying for tickets must produce vacc natioi certificite?. If the New Zealand Government imposes stringent regulations, the company will temporarily abandon Hobart as a port of call, but a direct cargo boat will be put on tbe Hobait-Me!bourne tra<?e and pat93ngers will have to go via Launcestoo. Consternation prevails ever tbe fact that sicce the s~h instant fifteen persons were discharged frim the hospital after suffering from what is now known as small p-x. They ace liable to spread the disease in all directions. A large number of people hava be n vaccinated. S-rict precautions are being taken by the other States against Tasmania, which is declared inf-cted.. Received 25.1.11 a.m Hobibt. June 24. Owing to New Z taland enforcing quarantine regu'at'or.s, the Warriuaoo will not call here. The p*B=engers and craw cf the Tokomaru Undid despite the instructions of the health officer. Everything possible is being done to prevent the spread of small-pox to Hobart. The mails ar.d persons travelling by mail traios are fu nigated. At the opening of the Lauaceston Criminal Cuurt to day the presiding Julga after consulting tin health authorities said be would only take the pleadedguilty esses, otbeiwlsi it wouli msan a large number of witnesses from the country would run the ri-k of small pox.