SMALLPOX ON SHIP.
FRENCH ORDER CANCELLED. OUTBREAK NOT SPREADING. (Received April 10. 7.25 p.m.) British WireleßS. KUGBY, April 18. Tlie Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. G. L. Locker-Lampson, stated in the House of Commons to day that official confirmation had been received of the suspension by the French Government of its order requiring visitors from England to have been vaccinated within the preceding two months Referring to (lie cause of the order, namely the outbreak of smallpox on board the Tuscania, which arrived at Glasgow on April 1, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, said the number gf cases among the 1598 passengers and crew was 45. There had been seven deaths in all. The patients had been isolated iu hospital, and all contacts were being kept under supervision. The rigorous action taken in Britain to prevent the spread of smallpox from the Tuscania appeared to have proved effective, as the ship arrived 17 days ago. Any serious risk of a widespread outbreak of the disease was at an end, although it was passible that some secondary cases might arise,,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 13
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