SMALLPOX NEAR SYDNEY
[press ASSOCIATION.] , Sydney, April 1. Some excitement has been caused by the announcement that a case of smallpox had broken out near the'city. It appears that , a two-year-old child of Mr. Allen Lakeman, M.L.A. for Balronald, who resides at Manly, nine miles north of here, has been attacked with the dreaded disease. The case was reported on Saturday night, and steps were at once taken to have the family removed into quarantine and the house disinfected. The health authorities are, in consequence of the outbreak, refusing to issue clean bills of clearance to vessels leaving the port.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9017, 2 April 1888, Page 5
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