SMALLPOX.
THE OUTBREAK IN THE SOUTH. (I\RESS ASSOCIATION" TET.FCEAM.) IXVERCARGILL, Juno 2. • Another ease of variola varicella, or mi J"I smallpox, was reported tc-day, the suffeier being a patient in the hospital, who was admitted from "W'inton ten cirys ago, suffering from another compliant. Tho Health Officer visited Winton today, and made arrangements for the vaccination of the school children and the general public. A Husjccted rase in tho city was removed to the Ketv Infectious Diseases Hospital to-day for observation. 'J'i ere are now twenty cases in tho institution, all of a milcl type. The malignant form of tlio disease so far is confined to Dunedin, whence tho local infection has been definitely traced.
The rush vaccination has exhausted the supplies of lymph.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16851, 3 June 1920, Page 6
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