Smallpox.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 15, 19 January 1904, Page 2

Smallpox.

(Per Tress /V-j4>Dc\ation.) ciiiiisTcnrucir, Jan. 18. Atvo't'hcr mild cu.se of suspected smail}«>x wus discovered this morning in a lArai'Jii^iiou.sThe caj*\ with live contacts, was removed to llottle Lake Hospital aim I the place closud for di.sinvectk>n. Supplies of vaccina have run out, but further siippl'kvs are expected this afternoon. Later. Three suspicious eases wero reported to the hi-alth (illieerH t<>-dny,)l}Ut it is Uk)u;gJ.vt tliey are not smallpox. Two were removed to llottle Lake, anU t,he third left at home. The doctors were kept busy all day attt4n>d'iii'g cases which were reported, tout whiuh proved to be xylite simple complaints. iJiuvjd's ivoaiuling'hoaj.se unkl places from wlm-h some of the eases cuuno were releaHii from tpiarautine tliis cwnrulg. Twvnty-'thrce pvopie had bvvn locked up in the house since Friday morniimg. The rush for vaccin'alioui conti-nues, and a fresiji supply of lymph is anxiously awaited. . IiLENHKIM, Jan, 18. It luus been asceitainvd that a female professional muse named Kllis, eng'a&Md in a case at Pelorus, was employed a month ago nursing for chicken pox Mrs Smith, oi Christclmrcli, now a smallpox patient at liottle Lake. Airs Kllis arrived from Wellington on Ttalrsday la.vt, ami, having been traced to her present residence, the health authorities issued iwstrucfions to isolate and vaccinate t'ho family.