SMALL POX IN SYDNEY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 584, 12 July 1913, Page 5

SMALL POX IN SYDNEY.

PREVENTING INFECTION. SUSPICIOUS CASE AT MELBOURNE. IK Tc.lcKrapli.~rrc«s Association,- Oowrtl Received Friday, 9.40 p.m. Sydney, Friday The post office is disinlectintf 1 mailß. The health authorities at hyai disagree with the opinion attribu in a cable to Dr Valintine that if i New Zealand outbreak was true smi pox the Maoris would die like dies. Dr Patton, Director of Gene Health, points out though it is a «• form of the disease, he thought it w clearly small pox such as widely affect the negroes of the southern Unit States without any severe devok ments. though the negroeß Were ill-fitted as the Maoris to withsta it. Melbourne. Friday. South Yarra residents are anxio regarding the sickness of a young g which is declared officially to be ch kenpox, but sufferer has been remove A special health representation fr< New Zealand arrives at Sydney Tuesday to obtain first hand ?'nforrr tion of the outbreak and bring U details of the Auckland sickness. U (il then the Fejeral authorities a satisfied in holding up Auckland v» sels arriving at Sydney and insisti upon the vaccination and surveillan of passengers and crew. THE CASES SPREADING. Received this day tUIO a m. Sydney, This Day. The authorities think one case Penrith and the other at. laree small pox. A general vaccination the school children in the iniected ar commence on Monday. Ihe poll have all been vaccinated and the vi cination of the railway and other pu lie staff is proceeding. The inter-Stale railway traffic h decreased fully one-third. A number o persons in Vietol have been fined for refusing to all< their children to be vaccinated.