Smallpox.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1904, Page 3

Smallpox.

(Per Press Association.) I CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 15. | Two more smallpox auspects have I bet*n sent to the imeeiious disease:! I frospital—-Mrs Smith, supposed to be . the original cose, wl.«o hot- I illness ta TfcutnianjiiA) apples, and a young man who came to GhristcKurch five or six days ago. The latter was discovered in'the Central Dining Rooms. showing symptoms similar to stiralljjo-x. Tne place is now closed aJivd a guard placed over it. Attendants in tJ.e roo'ins have ! Xteen vaccinated. WELLINGTON', Jmn. 15. In connection with the .smallpox outbreak at Chri«tch.u.rch there will Jbe no ffuai'antinia/g of vessels ficm Lytlcltoin; but a inspection will bo made on arrival of etich vessel. Tho Hoalth Department is preparing for any emergency which may ariee, including the propaniimm! cf a : :i infectious diseases hospital and free vaccination, as was done at tliL 1 time of tho Gracchus sic we. Ktuown contacts with the Christ.f:foureh patients are being- traced ajiwl will be <ietai?>ed for observation. Two more cases were ithcovered in Sydenham late to-day, and taken at once out to Bottle Lake Hospital, whore there are now nine sufferers. Dr. Mason is using the Finsen redlig'ht cure on the patients. Over nine hundred potions were vaccinated to-day.

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