THE NEW ZEALAND OUTBREAK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 2 August 1913, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALAND OUTBREAK.

BT TELEGRAPH—PKESS A.SOCIATION

WELLINGTON, Aug. 1. The smallpox bulletin states that the district health officer at Auckland (Dr Monk) reports two cases of smallpox in the Auckland Hospital district yesterday. There is a further outbreak at Waitara (?). Three deaths are reported here, but have not yet been confirmed. A case is reported from Waikare (Kawakawa way) as typical. Dr Cawkwell reports three cases at Wairere, and eight cases at Tautoro, in the vicinity of Kaikohe. One fresh case is reported at Te Awamutu, and also one case at Tauwhaje. The district health officer adds that the latest accounts given by telephone and telegram certainly point to the fact that the cases are assuming the more regular symptoms of the disease. Dr Valintine has left for Auckland to confer with the local authorities and cithers on stamping out smallpox. Dr Frengley, who retur«^d to Wellington yesterday, emphasises that there is no doubt that the epidemic is smallpox, and that Europeans are liable to an attack.