MILD SMALLPOX
ANOTHER CASE IN SOUTHLAND. [Pee United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, June 2. Another case of variola varicella, or mild smallpox, is reported to-day, the sufferer beinu a patient in the hospital who was admitted from Winton 10 days owing to another complaint, and hi's since developed smallpox. The health oflicer visited Winton to-day, and made arrangements for 'vaccination of tho school children and the general public. A suspected case in tho town was removed to" Key Infections Diseases Hospital to-day for observation. There aro now 20 cases in the institution, all of a mild type. The malignant form of tho disease is so far coined to Dunedin, whence the local infection has been definitely traced. The rush for vaccination has exhausted the supplies of lymph.
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Evening Star, Issue 17369, 3 June 1920, Page 9
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126MILD SMALLPOX Evening Star, Issue 17369, 3 June 1920, Page 9
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