SMALL-POX IN SYDNEY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3110, 21 June 1892, Page 2

SMALL-POX IN SYDNEY.

(lIV KLKCTKIC TKLEOItAPH.—COPVniOHT). Sydney, Juno Id. Tnrc steamer Oroya has arrived from Ti'Midon with a full passenger list for *ii-' various ports, mid wits admitted to pratique; but cases of small-pox wore discovered on the vessel after all the iiii«senffcrs, with the exception of six hooked for New Zealand, had dispersed. It is believed Unit anothxic.isc occurred on the voyage, but that the patient was convalescent before the steamer's arrival in Australian waters. Efforts arc being made to get bold of those of tho passengers who landed before the vessel was quarantined. June '20. One person, suffering from smallpox, left the Oroya nt Melbourne. The disease was then in the fifth day stage. The patient was staying at the Victoria Coffee Palace, when tho nature of the disease was discovered, and tho building has been quarantined. A girl who was nearly convalescent when the steamer rouslicd Australia, also landed at Melbourne, where it was found she had been suffering from the same disease. Tho house has been isolated. A rigorous search is being niado in the various ports where tho steamer touched, for passengers who have landed. It is alleged that the ship's doctor treated those who were ill lor ecze ma and prickly heat,