THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1904, Page 6

THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

A CASE IN WELLINGTON. OFFICER OF TIIK lIKALTH DXI'AKTMISX I1I 1 ATTACKED. Tho suspicious ca>so which was sent to Some« Lslaml on Saturday turn* out li> bt in reality a mild form of smallpox. Tho patient is Mr. .M'Uralh, of the I'ublic llvnlth Department, who . lives in the vicinity of Tinakori-rond, and he mid his wife mid child have since Saturday been carefully isolated ut Somes Inland, and the houftfr h«« been fumigated. In consequence of iuioiinntion which it received, olh'ceia of tho Health Doptnttnent paid a visit to-day to a houho in Ebor-strcet, off Tory-street, in whicli a suspicious case has occurred. The house, which is occupied liy five people, has been isolated, ns well as the lcsidwico Avhich ndjotns it. Visiting at Uio Chrjslchurch Flospital has been suspended during the past fortnight, in order to avoid any t'hanco of the smallpox infection being distributed among the patients. Kumouis .-lie porsidtcntly circulated in town (says tho Christdniich Star) to tho eft'oct '.hat serious cases of illuesa havd resulted from vaccination, but no .such cases have been repotted to tho Health CMlicers. Over one thousand vaccinated persons have been examined at tho Health Bureau, and not one har had oven an uuuuually bad arm. i "