SMALL-POX IN AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 July 1913, Page 5

SMALL-POX IN AUSTRALIA.

DEATHS AFTER VACCINATION.

ORIGIN OF TSfE DISEASE

(Received Last Night. '6.10 o'clock.) SYDNEY, July 24. Two deaths after vaccination have caused public Uneasiness, in view of the severe effects in many cases following injofPfcn. The first case, the doctor stated, was not due to vaccination. In the second, the Coroner refused to accept a certificate until a post mortem was hold. A doctor reported that death was due to heart and kidney diseases, and was in no way associated with vaccination. Dr Patton now claims that the small-pox came from Cuba, whence it spread right across the United States, and reached Australia and New Zealand via the Vancouver mail boats. He adds: "At any rate, New Zealand did not get it from us."

SCARE SUBSIDES IN MELBOURNE. (Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, July 24. The small-pox scare has subsided, and the vaccination bureaus are empty. Dr Campston is of opinion that Melbourne can be declared a- clean city. If the passenger by the Karoola, who developed small-pox here, had infected anybody, the • disease would now be noticeable. Nearly all the Karoola's passengers have been released from quarantine. A CASE IN ADELAIDE. (Received. La«t Night, 9.20 o'clock.) ADELAIDE, July 24. A woman at Hawthorne, a suburb of Adelaide, has developed small-pox. She visited Sydney recently. INEFFECTIVE LYMPH. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) SYDNEY, July 24. , Dr Harris, of Newcastle, states that when he found the first fifty tubes of lymph from Auckland ineffective, he cabled; inquiring, and got a reply stating that they were supplied by the Health Department. Dr Harris says the first fifty were weak. Another fifty have arrived, but they seem to be slightly differeat.