SYDNEY SMALLPOX SCARE
EFFECT ON SHIPPING.
RUSH TO VACCINATE.,,
By Telegraph.—Press AMOciation.—Copyright,£..; - •' Sydney, July.B. "' - Four thousand people were vaccinated ' here yesterday. Mr. Cook. (Federal Pre- }? mier) declares he '; is determined that i th» ;>; position is to be firmly gripped / and th* ;.; '■';.' spread of the disease checked at any cpstv>v The outbreak is already having 'an'ad-.,, verse effect on the shipping of ''the-' port. Some companies are arranging to tr ' omit;y Sydney as a port of call. All are arrang- ; ing for : the vaccination ,of the crews ; and advising passengers that they must Vbe vaccinated. ' r^' : -''•':..'i 4 ''- ! i ;^_ Large supplies of lymph are en. route '
to Sydney from Melbourne and New Zealand. . • :.V"\ ..* • W ~ '' '
Sir Gerald Strickland (State(Governor)' and his staff were amongst those vaccinated yesterday. '*■ ' \ '• "'/'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15349, 9 July 1913, Page 9
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