SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY
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SIDNEY, September 18. Six fresh coses of smallpox were reported to-day. TIRED OF QUARANTINE AND STAGNATION OF TRADE. THE POLITICIAN’S WAY. MELBOURNE, September 19. (Rereived September 19, at 10.15 a.m.) the Federal House of Representatives Mr Webster (N.S.W ) moved-" That with a view to ending the suffering and sacrifice ot human life, and the commercial, industrial, and domestic stagnation resulting trom the quarantining of Sydney, the proclamation be cancelled, and be replaced by a system of isolation and sanitary reform.
Mr Webster and other speakers drew a doleful picture of the baneful effects of vaccination, declaring that it had resulted in a number of deaths, and that damaging results to trade had followed the proclamation It was also claimed that the outbreak was not true smallpox. The debate was adjourned.
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Evening Star, Issue 15293, 19 September 1913, Page 8
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