SMALL-POX NEAR HASTINGS
MAORI WOMAN AFFECTED. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SPREAD (By Telegraph—Prw Association.) HASTINGS, Last Night. A mild case of smallpox was detected by Dr McKibbin at Pakipaki pah, six miles from Hastings, yesterday. M ,
The patient is a young Maori woman. She attended the races here on Wednesday. The doctor states that the case is similar to those occurring in Auckland, and is not very serious.
; The woman was removed to the quarantine station this afternoon.
Everything possible has been done to prevent the spread of the disease. The district has been isolated, and the Pakipaki school closed.
Orders have been given forbidding the travelling of natives, and all certificates for vaccination issued recently have been cancelled. The Health Department has communicated with the Hastings Town Clerk, asking that instructions be giVen to eerve notices on the proprietors of public entertainments that no natives be admitted to the performances. and owners of taxi-cabs are to be notified that natives are not to travel. /
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 October 1913, Page 5
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163SMALL-POX NEAR HASTINGS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 October 1913, Page 5
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