FOR SMALLPOX.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 22, 26 January 1935, Page 9

FOR SMALLPOX.

MANY VACCINATED. 277 Passengers on Aorangi Treated. MOST OF CREW RELEASED. iUnited P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Drs. Bevington and Metcalfe remained on the Aorangi and examined the vaccination history of all on board. Those who are compelled to remain in quarantine for the full period will have complete facilities for reading, recreation and communication by telephone with friends in the metropolitan area. Altogether 277 passengers were vaccinated, all of whom had not been treated within the past seven years. The vessel will be fumigated and is expected to berth at Darling Harbour to-day. The Union Steam Ship Company announces that the Aorangi's sailing" date —next Thursday—will be adhered to. Seventy-six of the Aorangi's passengers, including 28 Indians who will return by the Moldavia to their home country, are to be released from quarantine. The majority of the crew, all of whom have been vaccinated within recent years, will be released also and will rejoin the Aorangi after the vessel has been fumigated on Sunday. It is expected that another group of passengers will be freed five days hence, but the remainder, with a small percentage of the crew, will be detained for the full quarantine period.