EPIDEMIC AT AUCKLAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 July 1913, Page 5

EPIDEMIC AT AUCKLAND.

STATJEMENT BY BR YAIiNTENEr

(fly TdegrapK—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Dr Vaiintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, interesting: dqcninents tpniay with the'oirtbxeak of a disease resembling,. -/ ; aaii-ipbx"m the*north, wiu : oe V cases nOwxih ■'Kiie Aueklajid Hosphjil. He admitted that, owing to tin* iiews.; , from Sydney, the existence 'M'-.'a- .psis--- •.' -■mar disease among the Miu>ns ofi>l!e>' : ; „iprth .gavethe Departimai. t-lu* jjruv- ; ;^st r concern. ''Under stanoes, ; ;.then," said ,l)r ' Ya!ia"tine,- ;> "the Department considers itH,(fpera-, ;< fci,xe.to take all! &g If the diseaso Wong."' tiie : ~ Aliaoris is aotuaUysinall-pox. Alt/hough alltbe ■'/eaistras >f this disease have not bf*n nobicoable;.,iii;'the cases undfr tre;i:jr;ent,. it'is a very significant-fact that all the severe cases have be-on confined to the Maoris. '* Dr VaJin- -- tine made it clear that, any and everybody can be vaccina tod free oF charge by nmy public vaccination officer, and .mosit medical practitioners, were publio vaccination officers": The lymph used was pure calf lymph from . healthy animals, prepared under thebest possible conditions. It not." taken from <u*{h*to arm* i •• ; -.; L;