MILD SMALLPOX.
OVERSEAS SHIP QUARANTINED. NG PASSENGERS ON BOARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Shaw, Savill steamer Waiwera, which arrived to-day from Britain, via South African ports, Newcastle, and Sydney, has been quarantined and a member of the crew isolated on Motuihi Island. His complaint has been diagnosed as alastr im, which Dr. Hughes (medical inspector of health) states is supposed to be a mild form of smaLpox. There are no passengers on rite vessel. and no other suspected case on board, but all on board the vessel have been vaccinated. Mails from the United Kingdom and Australia are oh the vessel and they will not be landed until she hae a clear bill of health. The period of quarantine will be at least a (week.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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128MILD SMALLPOX. Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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