SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

Mataura Ensign, 6 July 1914, Page 5

SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

CASES IN SYDNEY. 1 BY ELECTRIC TELEGBArH — COPYRIGHT, I • PJSB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I SYDNEY, July 5. Three furthor cases of smallpox are reported. NEW ZEALAND FHEE. ! MELROUR.NE, July 5. Speaking of the declaraticn that New Zealand is free of smallpox. Mr Cump<tou (Federal Director (if Quarantine.), stated that it was a gre.it pity that Svdney was unable to show the fame! ■■satisfactory slate as "!*<e\r Zaland.j During the whole time that .<?mnl'p:>xj was raging in New Zealand i:o case; was imported to .Australia. *i > Mr Armstrong (chairman of the Board of Health) later contradicted MrCump-, ston.'s statement, averring that one rase that wis d v eovcred at Newcastle came from New Zealand. CASE. AT NEWCASTLE. NEWCASTLE, Ju-v'4. One case of smallpox is reported. CASE ON A STEAMER. Received Jnlv fi, 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY. July fl. The steamer Karoola arrived on Friiday from Melbmirne with a stnallp.jx joarieni aboard, lleweii,- fica. Sy ioe\ in. week ago and slaved at the Coffee iP.alau' io Collins Street. The p-.tc'o has ! been disiniected. | The Victorian aurhorfies are i-c-siim-iingtho strict examination-of people arI riving Jb'isea or overlai!<i-%>M, Sydney,