AUSTRALIAN CASES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CASES.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION— COPTEIGH31,

SIDNEY, Sept. 5. Iwo seamen of the steamer K«nt were sentenced to seven days' hard tobor for disobeying the captain's orders to be vaccinated. The accused <mKnutted that they had been" vaccinated m New Zealand and had sore arms in consequence. Another inoculation would interfere with their work as stokers, lhe captain stated that he was unable to obtain his clearance payers unless all the crew were vaccinated.

Seven smallpox cases were reported to-day in the metropolitan area The suspected case at Young is not smallpox. Sixty patients are now in quarantine. 1

BRISBANE. Sept. 5. Queensland is practically free from smallpox, one sufferer only remaining.