SMALL POX SCARE
OUTBREAK IN SYDNEY.
SIXTY CASES REPORTED
Received This Morning, 12.26 o'clock. SYDNEY, July 1. A sensation has been caused by the announcement that a serious outbreak of small-poz has occurred in Sydney. Since April 12th numerous cases of what have been described as chickenpox have been xmder treatment, and the Government medical officers set to work quietly and conducted inquiries. Some of the cases were removed to the coast hospital, and after a careful diagnoses were declared to be small-pox. The outbreak is of a very mild form. The source of the infection is stated to be a clothing factory at Redfern. So far sixty cases have been traced. All necessary precautions for the quarantining of the actual cases have been taken. The Hon.. W. A. Holman, in an pfficial statement, with a view to allaying the public alarm, states that the Government medical * officers are adopting every possible Btep to meet the situation, and adds that tjy disease is in a mild form.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 July 1913, Page 5
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167SMALL POX SCARE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 July 1913, Page 5
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