SMALLPOX.

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

SMALLPOX.

SPREADING IN SYDNEY. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, Aug. 4. Nine smallpox cases were reported in the metropolitan area to-day, and one from Liverpool. The cases at Yass and Ulmarra are tinder investigation. Th« latter is believed to be smallpox. BRISBANE, Aug. 4. Suspicious cases reported from Cairns, Goodna, and Paddington are under observation.

The first English Vaccination Act was passed through Parliament on July 23, 1840. Vaccination, discovered by Dr Edward Jenner in 1796, and first put into general practice three years later, was widely performed throughout Europe long before this measure. Already many countries had made it compulsory, among these being Bavaria (1807), Denmark (1810), Sweden (1814), Wurtemburg, and several other German States (1818), and Prussia (1835). In the United States several States passed compulsory vaccination laws very early, Massachusetts starting in 1809. The Act of 1840 did not, however, make it compulsory in England. This was not> done till 1853, and in 1863 the operation of the Act was extended to Scotland and Ireland.