SMALLPOX.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 8

SMALLPOX.

A DISTRICT CLEAR

BY TELEGRAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION.

CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 6.

The Health Department announces that the smallpox outbreak in the Maungataatari district, where the epidemic was experienced in a severe form, is not quite abated. There have been no fresh cases for some weeks, and all the sufferers are com alescent. A pass has been given to one native for each pa to come to town to purchase food supplies. The whares have been thoroughly disinfected, and where considered too insanitary for habitation, they have been destroyed by lire. During the currency of the epidemic no Europeans have been affected.