AORANGI’S PASSENGERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 7

AORANGI’S PASSENGERS.

COMFORTABLY HOUSED ON ISLAND. PERIOD OF QUARANTINE. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) AVELLINGTON, Feb. 25. If the New Zealand passengers by the Aorangi react satisfactorily to the vaccinating process, or already have what the medical staff call a good vaccination history, their stay on the island will be short. A'ESSEL OFF QUARANTINE STATION. , Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 24. The liner Aorangi. which was placed in quarantine on arrival from Vancouver yesterday, when it was found there was a case of smallpox aboard, left the stream this morning and anchored off the quarantine station on Motuhihi Island. An examination of the case to-day confirmed the original opinion that the disease was contracted in a mild form; the possibility of its spread is considered remote. A day out from Suva the woman became ill and the ship’s doctor, becoming suspicious of a serious infectious disease, at once isolated the patient, who was travelling alone and was the sole occupant of a cabin in the second class. From there until Auckland was reached the strictest isolation was observed. To-day, the patient was removed to the quarantine station, and her condition remains the same. All the passengers and crew of the Aorangi were vaccinated to-day. All except the first class travellers bound for Sydney were landed on the quarantine station, and a thorough fumigation of the ship was carried out. AVith her through passengers aboard, the Aorangi will leave Motuhihi Island to-morrow morning and return to Auckland, but will not berth here. About 230 passengers for Sydney will embark, only about 30 of those who had booked having cancelled their passages. All these new passengers, if they w r ish to avoid the risk of detention in Sydney, will have to be vaccinated before they board the ship. The remainder of the Aorangi’s English and American mail for New Zealand will be landed to-morrow, but no cargo will be discharged. This will be carried on to Sydney and later brought to New Zealand in another steamer.

A telegram received by the Minister of Health. Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, from the Director-General of Health, Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, stated that the passengers in quarantine would be discharged after vaccination, in accordance with modern practice. The Union Steamship Company has received a cablegram from the health authorities in Sydney, stating that any passenger who had been successfully vaccinated yithin the past seven years might be released under surveillance after arrival there. Telephone advice from Motubihi tonight was to the effect that the quarantined passengers were comfortably housed and were receiving the best of attention from the staff appointed to look after them. Cases of dysentery found aboard the ship had been disembarked and placed under treatment. LIST OF PASSENGERS. The New Zealand passengers by the Aorangiare: First class: Messrs Atkin, Benton, Boucher, Bland, Bunting, Boal, Chairman, Chaplin, Dunwoodie, Edmonds, Hagen, Hawthorn (2), Houchen, Iddings, Inglis, Ingerson (2), Kirkwood, Levis, McGinley, McLaren, McClellan, Nash, Nelson, Reilly, Tight, Terry, Warner, Woodley, Wray, Dr. Schlemm* Master Reilly, Mesdames Bunting, Boal, Cave, Commings Clunie, Chapman, Dunwoodie Edger, Edmonds, Horspool, Hawthorn, Houchen, Levis, McGinly, McLaren, Nash, Reillev, Tight, Von Binzer, Wilson, Warner, Woodley, Wray, Misses Chapman (3), Clunie, Greenslade, Hatton, Hawthorn, Harper, Langford, McLaren, Murdoch, lteilley, Stone, Wilkie. „ . Second class: Messrs Bam (2), Berry, Beddoes, Burn, Cockburu, Ducker, Hartley, Hathaway, _ Jenkins, Lee, McNeil, Michael, Nichols, Parke, Ross (2), Thorsby, Turner, Webb, .Mesdames, Burn, Calkin, Edgar, Hathaway, Jenkins, Lee, Maclean, Ross, Shore, Wright, Whitaker, Dr. Calkin, Masters Burn, Lee, Scudamore, Whittaker, Misses Ayers, Cremer, Chapman, Dunsamore, Frost, Gray, Hathaway, Kinnear, Menzies, Maclean, Norris Pavnemis, Quitsch, Ross, Shove, Tavlor, Whittaker, Zander. Third class: Messrs Bevan, Cusack, Diplock, Ellis, Fulton, Gididngs, Lacev. Minniharn, McKenize (2), Ritchie (2), Young. Wells, C. John, Master Newton, Mesdames Diplock, Gillott, Giddings, Miss Diplock. PRECAUTIONS IN AUSTRALIA. Received Februarv 25, 10.5 a.m. SYDNEY, lYb. 24. The health authorities at Sydney are preparing for the arrival of the Aorangi from Auckland next Friday. They will order the vessel into quarantine for twenty-four hours, after which, if there are no further smallpox oases, she will be’ allowed to go to her berth with all who are eligible for release under surevillance. The chief quarantine doctor here says that the American type of smallpox closely resembles severe chickenpox, and is not like the Asiatic type. It is not usually fatal.