SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 5

SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

SEVEN NEW CASES. QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS. i ,; PURIFIED " LYMPH. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.! (.Received 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A smallpox patient quarantined at j | Newcastle refuses to give information aj Ito where he came iroiii. 1 >11 •_ the police! j suspect that he arrived from Auckland j |by the steamer Canada (.'ape. One of the Queensland smallpox patients is a policeman. Strict precautions are enforced on pas- | sengers arriving at firisbane by trains | from Xew South Wales, Oue consignment of Now Zealand \ lymph, it is oliicinlly slated, has boon sol | purified that all the cowpox was purified 1 ; out of it. In a trial at Sydney onlv one i | r-aso took out of six. i Some of tho Boar dof Health lymph | I from New Zealand has been sent to New-1 j castle. In response to the public demand, the; j Government at Suva, is proclaiming vigor-! I ous quarantine regulations to-morrow. I I Passengers arriving at Suva v. ill be quar-j antined until the completion of li days i j from the date of tlieir leaving an infected' ! port. | Tho Victoria arrived here at 7 o'clock j last night, and anchored down tho harj bour awaiting medical inspection. The | passengers landed this morning. There were o\- crises of smallpox from 'lie metropolitan area yesterday, one I ; from a house in a filthy condition.' !t is j | suggested that tho 'local outhoritiosshould make o house-to-house visitation.; A case from Nvnncran has proved to \i" ■ smolloox. while n case from ( arcoar is i doubtful. | A case of susrtootod smallpox was re- : ported from Roseworlhy i South Anstra-j lia). The suspect was n recent vi-itor from Sydney, where ho was vaccinated. : Tie h?d developed " «n=pb ions r-i-.h. hut Drs. Makgill am! Pithing report that tho ; patient nt Adelaide is suffering from. nettlernsh only.

HORSES FOR THE ARMY. A BIG FAILIHG OFF. I ("Sydney S-.in" Special Service.) j LOXDOX, July 25. i Colonel Jarvis i chairman of the Remount Committee 1 states that the horses available for the military in the county of London d"ercased by 50 per cent in the past three years. At the present rate of decrease it will i shortly be impossible to provide for the I mounted services other than yeomanry, j

HAVELCCK WILSON'S CREDIT.' SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. LONDON. July 2.1. During the In-tiring of the action' brought by Mr Havclo-k Wilson i secre- j tary of til? Seamen's and Firemen's' Union) a_:iinsi tl..- Shipping Federation I and others f,, r eonspira.-y to make him i a bankrupt, eonnsel tor Mr \\ ilson alleged i that bankruptcy proceedings were in.-ti- I tmed in Il'llil in older lo prejuilii-e Mr i Wilson's sea; in I \i.l lament, and again! in 1911. when Mr Wilson wa.- most active during the maritime cri-is. I ("Sydney Sun" Special Service ) LONDON, July 25. j Mr Wilson allege- that bogus unions' were finnmed by I ',■•■ Shipping Eederat ion ! for the purpose of attacking and en-| deavnurinc to discredit him. lie said that ! they brought live libel actions and ~1,- j tamed in each a farthing damages. _ . . . . ,