SMALL-POX IN LYTTELTON.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2774, 22 May 1903, Page 2

SMALL-POX IN LYTTELTON.

I* Dr McDougal, the gentleman who has undertaken to act as medical officer at the Quail Island Quarantine Station, was a pas senger from Wellington by the s.s. Roto mahana on Tuesday. He is a man of middle age, a M.D. of Dublin University, and has had much experience iv British hospitals, and in Australia. He is especially qualified for his present position, beiog familiar with the treatment of small pox. He is compare tively a new arrival in the colony, havirg only recently come to Wellington. On the arrival of Dr McDougal at Lyttelton he was met by the acting Chief Heal: h Officer, Dr Valentine, and tho District Health Officer, Dr Finch, Accompanied by Mr A. Kaye, chairman of the Harbour Board, and Miss Garrie, who has volunteered to assist ,ts nurse at the station, the three medical gentlemen proceeded by the steam launch Lyttelton to Quail Island, to inspect the baildings there, and to make preliminary arrangements for the reception of the crew of the Gracchus. Tho building, are pronounced to be very suitable for tho purpose. They are in good repair, havirg been attended to 1 :,st year, on tho occasion of the bubonic phii>ue "rcire." They are constructed of wood, and, although ..it from new, ara well built and soui,d. Toeir situ ation ia dry and thorough.y salubrious, and they are lofty, airy, well ventilated and woll lighted, They comprise wards originally intended for single men and single wo* man, quarters for married couples, a hospital and the necessury offices. The rooms aie li.cd with boarding, aud the interiors are painted. There are, of course, fire places, cooking stoves and other requisite arrangements. Separate cooking places have been provided for the Europeans and the Lascars, who, as a matter of course, have separate quarters. Each Lascar is allowed 300 cnbic feet of air space, and the allowance for the Europeans is even more liberal. In short, the station affords every ample accomodation. The sick officer, Mr Bell, with the doctor and the nurses, is lodged in the hospital, which is an exceedingly good one. On the arrival of the Union Steamship Company's s.s. Upolu irom southern ports on Wednesday morning she was boarded by the sanitary inspector, Mr Munro, in order to ascertain whether any transhipments J from the Gracchus wore included in her

1 cargo. It appeared that there were none, but that 50 biles of gunny bags from the steamer now in quarantine had been pat on the Upola at Dunedin, but landed t& Timaru, where they were taken poE8"8?ioa of by the health anthorities.