SMALL-POX IN AUSTRALIA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 July 1913, Page 5

SMALL-POX IN AUSTRALIA

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association—Bitl Xleetrie Telegraph—Copyright)

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTYEIGHT CASES REPORTED. (Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) V SYDNEY, July 16. Since the small-pox outbreak, 258 cases have been reported. One hundred and ten thousand persons have been vaccinated. The disease appears to be getting a hold outside the city. A case was discovered at Parramatta to-day, and another at Armidale. The latter is a child, recently from Sydney.

CONSTERNATION IN MELBOURNE PASSENGER BY STEAMER AFFECTED. THE VESSEL QUARANTINED. (Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) MELBOURNE,'JuIy 16. Consternation has been caused at the discovery that a second-class lady passenger on the steamer Karoola is suffering from smallpox. The Karoola arrived from Sydney with 323 passengers on Monday, and was granted a clean bill. She has been Tying in the river since her arrival. All the passengers were vaccinated prior to the vessel's departure from Sydney. •'.■,,',• The bulk left on the arrival of the steamer, only those for Adelaide and West Australia remaining aboard. The patient, after visiting friends in the city, returned aboard. On discovering that she presented suspicious symptoms, she was last night visited by a doctor, who diagnosed smallpox. The Karoola, with 230 passengers aboard, including 132 of the remaining passengers, was immediately taken into quarantine. The authorities, are making urgent efforts to collect the remaining passengers, who are distributed over the city and elsewhere. NINETEEN FRESH CASES. (Received This Morning, 1 o'clock.) SYDNEY, July 16. Nineteen fresh cases of smallpox were reported to-day, mostly from the suburbs, including three, of four -jjfc-sy districts.