SYDNEY FIGURES
COMPULSORY VACCINATION. ! " NOTHING WORSE THAN PANIC LEGISLATION." (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) SYDNEY, 20th August. Eleven cases of smallpox were reported in the city to-day; 73 patients are now in quarantine, and there are 166 convalescent*. The total number of smallpox cases to date is 536. Another case is reported from Lithgow, where an hotel waitress has been infected. She had not been in Sydney, nor had she been in contact with anybody known to have been infected. Replying to a deputation from the Health Society, Mr. Flowers (VicePresident of the Executive Council) Bfcid that nothing could be worse than panic legislation, but a Bill dealing with compulsory vaccination would be introduced shortly. It was proposed also to enlarge the powers of the Board of Health. A 'suggestion to proclaim Sydney a* a city from which no persons should be able to move unless they had been vaccinated would be, eaid Mr. Flowers, a very drastic step, and lead to chaos. Replying to a question in Parliament, Mr. Flowers said that 72 contacts had been quarantined since the outbreak, and of these four became infected with the disease.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1913, Page 8
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