MILD SMALLPOX.
THE SOUTHLAND OUTBREAK,
FOURTEEN CASES REPORTED.
(By TeJesrapn—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, Monday.
Two further notifications o! mild smallpox bring tho number of caeee in the Southland Hoepital district to fourteen, ten being in lnvereargill and four nt Gore. All contacts have been quarantined, arid the district health officer ifcstice a further warning to the. public regarding the wisdom of submitting to vaccination. I In i-ic* of the fart that in the South- ' land ■ district the epidemic of varioloid ■ varicella, otherwise modified ehiallpoS. shows, a tendency to increase, tiie .Health Department is now urging the advisability of general vaccination in the Otago Hospital district. The outbreak appears to be about stationary, and in the" Vincent and Oamaru districts no fresh cases have been reported. j
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 124, 25 May 1920, Page 11
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