THE SMALL-POX SCARE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 July 1913, Page 5

THE SMALL-POX SCARE.

CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION. (By Telegraph.—Prets Association.) WHANGAREI, Last Night. The fact that persons who can produce a "certificate of successful vaccination" can move about w'lhou* restrition, scans to require immediate attention from t' o Department of Public Health, for the present regulation is more or less futility. For instance, a Maori who observed a rash breaking out on his body called on the Medical Superintendent of the Whangarei Hospital in town, a couple iof days ago to find out what was the matter. He exhibited all the ■symp- , toms of the prevailing .malady, and also a, certificate of successful vao- ! cination. He was desected immedi'atefy into the isolation ward, but it I was six hours before the hospital claimed! him, the interval having been spent in town and at a boardinghouse. There was nothing to prevent thia man, though he was highly infectious, or contagious, from travelling about, or even going to Auckland. Indeed, he had the necessary passport of a "successful vaccination" certificate. As there are today two two patients in the isolation ward hospital'who had been quite recently "successfully vaccinated," the defect in the present regulations is obvious. Representations on this subject are being made to the Health Department by the Hospital Board.

| THE LATEST BULLETIN. [ FIFTY-THREE CASES REPORTED | WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Health Officers' bulletin tonight is as follows: ' "There are now thirty cases under treatment at the Auckland Hospital, three being Europeans. "It has been found necessary to-in-crease the hospital accommodation by eight beds, and a marquee has been obtained from the Defence authorities for this puYpose. "The news from the outlying districts is as follows: Dr Wadmore reports a caise at. Teteko. Dr Seville reports a case at Morrinsvillei Dr Latchmore reports one at Terau. Altogether there are some twenty-three cases isolated in the Auckland province, excluding those mentioned in the Auckland hospital. "Three patients have been isolated, at Kawahawa in the Native school near that town. "Dr Buck proceeds to Whangarei to-night with an ample supply of lymph, and a nurse has been dispatched to Kawakawa. Dr Baker reports some doubtful cases at Kaibu. Neither Dr Gunn nor Dr Ross have made any special reports to-day. "No further cases have been reported frdm Hawke's 'Bay, but one case has been isolated in Wellington. "There'is still a great demand for vaccine from all parts of the country, and there is quite enough tr meet the reasonable demands of coun. try vaccinators."

THE WELLINGTON CASE. TYPICAL SMALL-POX. RtTMOUR OF A SECOND CASE. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Wellington "suspect" has been diagnosed as typical small-pox, though in. a very mild stage, and unlikely to carry infection. The patient is a woman who came recently from Kawakawa. She is isolated, as also are all who have been in contact with her. These have all been vaccinated, and the health authorities have taken such precautions as mil, it iV believed, prevent any possibility of the disaease gaining ground in the city. An unverified rumour was current late to-night that a second case had developed, the person affected having attended the race ball last night.