SMALL-POX OUTBREAK.
I CABLE NEWS
(United Prm Auociation—By 3£kctt*c Telegraph — Copyright.)
SPREAD TO THE COUNTRY.
EPIDEMIC AMONG THE MAORIS;
(Received Puly 9, 9.30 a.m.) „ SYDNEY, July 9. It looks as if the precautions to. restrict the smallpox to the Sydney area will prove unavailing. Three suspicious cases have been reported from three separate country centres, lne authorities anticipate a spread of the disease, but no increase in its virulence.
So far twenty-three thousand persona have been vaccinated, including 2 e ™ ,- Ma y° r and many member* of Parliament. The staffs of business nrm s are being, vaccinated wholesale. Dt Paton, on the strength of a> New Zealand telegram, gives the opinion that the epidemic among tW Maoris is similar to the outbreak im bydney. He said he would not b& surprised to hear that a similar epidemic had obtained a footing in otherr btates, though the strictest precautions have been taken there. All mail matter is fumigated. The strictions are causing a great fallW off in inter-Stat© traffic. v/
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 July 1913, Page 5
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169SMALL-POX OUTBREAK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 July 1913, Page 5
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