RISK OF SMALLPOX.
MINIMUM OF DANGER. 1 It will be reassuring to relatives of : t moil in Egypt to know that the military j authorities have the reputation of actins with great promptness, wheu such a disease makes its appearance in the , \ ranks, in adopting measures of precau- \ tion. The Acting Chief Health Officer , ■i (Dr. Hughes) informed a reporter this p j morniiur that smallpox was sometime* endemic in tropical countries like Egypt. There was. he said- alway? a risk of infection, but the military authorities! could be relied upon to' do all that was i possible to prevent the disease from I spreading. As ;i matter of fact, it Ls understood that a" of the troops going forward from Xew Zealand were vaccinated. We know that the Maori troops were vaccinated, because they were done here. Other troops Tvonld be (treated in Wellington or on shipboard-
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 5
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