SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY.
CLEANING UP THE CITY. ELEVEN CASES YESTERDAY. THE FIJI QUARANTINE. SYDNEY, this day. The City Council is appointing additional sanitary inspectors to ensure a thorough cleaning up of the city. The Tx>rd Mayor, referring to the leaflet calling for an anti-vaccination meeting at tl'.e Town Hall, said to-day that he would not authorise the use of the hall for such a purpose, on the grounds of public policy, in view of ihe fact that the Board of Health was strongly urging that it was the. duty of every citizen to get vaccinated.
South Australia, while allowing vaccinated railway passengers with their luggage to enter the. State from Sydney, has blocked the way against all paTcel traffic.
A message from Suva says that the shipping companies resent the quarantine regulations proclaimed on Saturday. Unless these are modified there is a possfbility of the Islands being isolated. A deputation to-day asked the Governor to relax bhe regulations, and his reply will be given to-morrow.
There were 11 more cases of smallpox reported in the city yesterday.
A mild ease has been discovered in Brisbane..
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 5
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