SMALL-POX IN SYDNEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 July 1913, Page 5

SMALL-POX IN SYDNEY.

GABLE NEWS

(United Fret* Auociation—By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

FOUR THOUSAND VACCINATIONS EFFECT ON SHIPPING. (Received July 8, 8.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 8. Four thousand persons were vaccinated yesterday. The Premier, Mr Cook, declares that he is determined that the position must be firmly gripped, and the spread of the disease checked at any cost. The outbreak is already having an adverse effect on shipping • at' tjie port. "Some companies are arranging to omit" Sydney as a port of call. All are arranging for vaccination of .their crews, and are'-advisfirig passengers that they must be vaccinated.

SUPPLIES OF LYMPH. (Received July 8, 11.40 a.m.), .' " . SYDNEY, July 8: Large - supplies of lymph are en route ta Sydney from Melbourne and New Zealand. The Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland) and staff were amongst those vaccinated. . \

, THE LATEST REPORT. FURTHER CASESQUARANTINED*. Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock. ... SYDNEY, July 8. Forty-eight persons were quarantined to-day, of whom ten are patients and 38 convalescents and con,tacts. ■''•.,". There are now 191 persons in quarantine, consisting of 67 patients, 61 convalescents, and 63 contacts. Tm authorities hope to-morrow to discharge a considerable proportion of the cohtacts, whose vaccination have been successful, and probably 8 ;©r,9 convalescents, nvho are now free from infection. Supplies of lymph have arrived from Melbourne and Netr Zealand, but these will be used in the public depots, and none will be available this week for private practitioners.