CASE OF SMALLPOX

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 75, 24 February 1930, Page 6

CASE OF SMALLPOX

AORANGPS PATIENT.

PASSENGERS IN QUARANTINE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Eeb. 23. There is one case of smallpox aboard the Union Steam Ship liner Aorangi, which arrived here this evening at six o’clock from Vancouver, via Honolulu and Suva. The victim is a second-class woman passenger bound for Svdney from Vancouver. The case is mild and developed in the last few days. After the health officers had been aboard for some time, it was announced that there must be no communication with the shore. ~ , ... The Aorangi will proceed to Motuihi Island quarantine station in the gult to-morrow morning, and will land a. l passengers. The vessel will be fumigated, and tiled the Australian passengers will re-embark. The vessel will return to Auckland, remaining in stream until it sails for Sydney, passengers for New Zealand remaining cargo will be landed here, as the vessel C \viH not berth. The letter mad for New Zealand was discharged tonight, and the southern portion dispatched by train.

PERIOD OF QUARANTINE

FROM TWO TO THREE WEEKS

PASSENGERS TO BE VACCINATED.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb- 24. When the Royal mail motor ship Aorangi arrived at 5.50 p.m. on feu - day she was boarded by Dr B°yd,of the Health Department, who' took the place of Dr Russell, port health officer, who is indisposed. . . After an inspection occupying naif - an-hour, Dr Boyd summoned Dr Hughes who arrived at the ship s side within 20 minutes, and they had a consultation lasting over an hour. At 8 p.m., more than two hours after the vessel’s arrival, the doctors returned to the shore. The liner then hoisted her anchorage lights and it was announced that she would remain in the stream until this morning. , , . ■ Simultaneously, a launch conveying Customs officers, who had not been permitted to go on board, returned to the Queen’s Wharf. Dr Hughes meanwhile had obtained confirmation of his action from the Director-General of Health, Dr Valin* tine, and at 9.30 p.m. he paid a second visit to the ship, in company with Dr Gunson, a consulting physician. They returned at ten o’clock, when Dr Hughes announced that the vessel was under quarantine. She would have to go to the quarantine station at Motuihi, where her passengers would be landed and the vessel quarantined. • . . A patient on the ship is suffering from a mild form of smallpox. Dr Hughes said that she contracted the disease before joining the Aorangi at Vancouver. The period of incubation must have ended about the time the vessel was at Suva, for it was on the day after leaving that port that the smallpox symptoms were observed.

Tlie young woman had been isolated on the* ship and every possible precaution had been taken. She would be landed at Motuihi and placed in isolation. SHIP TO BE FUMIGATED. “The passengers will be vaccinated while on the island and the skip thoroughly fumigated,” said Dr Hughes. “All the passengers booked for New Zealand will have to remain on the island in the meantime. “The accommodation in the quarantine quarters there is good, and there is ample room for all who are obliged to remain there. The victualling of the passengers during their enforced stay, which may extend for from two to three weeks, will be a matter for arrangement between the Health Department and the Union Coy. ‘‘After the fumigation of the Aorangi is completed, the passengers Looked for Australia will be re-em-barked and the "steamer will then return to Auckland and anchor in the stream, not being permitted to berth. It is hoped to despatch her for Sydney at about nine o’clock this evening. “The New Zealand passengers who have booked by the Aorangi for Syd-. ney will be permitted to join the ves-/ sel this evening, after the steamer lias : been fumigated. It is likely that passengers thus joining at Auckland wyil be obliged to undergo vaccination.”/ On behalf of the Union Coy. itJ is stated that any persons desiring Jaot to travel by the vessel may transfer to the Maunganui, which will leave/ for Sydney on Friday. 1 It was stated by the Union Cjoy’s officials that it was not intendedl to discharge the New Zealand cargo) on the Aorangi. Instead, it would j be taken to Sydney and there transshipped to the Dominion. Unloading while the liner is at Motuihi would involve transhipment into ligjiters and, without the usual port facilities, the operation would take too lojng. NOTED PEOPLE ON BOA^tD. The prohibition against landing has come as an unpalatable surps-ise to the passengers, among whom are the noted goiters, Hagen and Kirkwood, who were to play a match /at Titirangi to-morrow, and the Cl'anadiau members of the Empire farmers’ party who are to tour the Dominic/n.

It being the end of the toikrist season in Iseiv Zealand and iAustralia, the passenger list is a light .'one, numbering approximately 200. /?

AORANGI SAILING TO-MORROW.

LEAVING AT N©ON

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 24. The Aorangi will return from Motuihi this afternoon an ( d. will leave for Sydney at noon on Tuesday. The passengers frorli New Zealand for Sydney have beeiii advised by the Union Company to.' travel by the Aorangi after "they have been vaccinated. As an alternative they may go by the Maunganui," but the latter vessel is fairly fully booked.

CASE ON THE NALDERA

DEATH OF VICTIM. PERTH, Feb. 23. Mr James' M. Sharpe, of Melbourne, who was taken to hospital from the liner Naldera and developed smallpox, died to-day.