Small-pox

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 194, 14 February 1914, Page 5

Small-pox

.AX LNTEKEM'IXtf ' ) ~~ I ENFORCEMENT OP VACCINATION. -| ~~ '\ liy Telegraph.—Pi ?„s Attoeiation. i Auckland, Last Xight.. /< Hii'. .ifternoon tlift Medical Congrew J* pi o>ceded to discuss ft paper by >ilr. M Monk, of tin-Public Health Department,'*j(| ii'i the -übject-of ".Tlyß (Imgifsisft'of M -m.illpoM imd - i,J wilting ijprewd.:ift tbetiPlgogcx. *| peiieneit ;>.iincd (luring the recent e|ti- -fa demie-, in New Zealand mid Xew South "sHa Wall*/' r yjjjjw |$ Dr. Monk, in the course of n lengthy.'%9 ami intei citing addrotw, -JftqWjeAiJ to jjl 'siiiniii.ii No \iinoui arguments (or and /gl agaitr-t the belief that 'the recent epfc Jl demie wat- sinallpoii ip a, aijkj imp. $j This view was supported' I>v otbc* '9 spe.ikcvs, wild declared tturl''the epi-"dl demie was similui in form to the Span- \M ish measles, akstrim, etc., which wer« y3 mild forms of smallpox. ' ?J On the motion <>f Dr. Staplcy, of Cam- rljjj bridge, seconded by l)r. Xowell, of Lyt- '■s% telton, the following resolution WM|*s| adopted, Dr. JVazcr-Hurst, of yßmmr M Tci. who has all folong argued tti«? Hie "M disease was not smallpo*, beiag theoßly'^ dissentient:—"ln tkVSpjnior. tl this ' '-M Congress, the epidemic that*ii&nt}} M united Australia and; Xew Zeuland wm jM undoubtedly smallpox."' , 'JM • The following resolution wa»umb&. ifa mously adopted, on the motion. «f Dr/visi Stapler, seconded by Dr. <sr»ttin?But-'-vffl lei, Queensland: 'That taking irfto eono M sideration that this disease «h»i been Jl intinduced into the country ,j|t/will be »o.iy difliciUt -to' eradicate, Oou- jS jtrohs strongly urges the tSi»us Got- 'y& •riinient>i of Australia ancf New 3etf ,*$ land to enforce vaccination and rewe- Ha eination as tie only practical method of $m stamping it out'." ~t*B