SMALL POX PAST AND TO COME.

NZ Truth, Issue 473, 11 July 1914, Page 9

SMALL POX PAST AND TO COME.

According to words of wisdom from the bottle bestrewn city of Te Kulti, tho "Maori opidomlc" is as defunct as a departed sennapper, silt and smoked, and no more will Honre and Tlml be barred from going to Auckland to sec about tc Wttlplro, to billiard, and te motor car. It is twelve months since this opidomlc started raining plmplOH upon the dials of Hcnre und Tlml and llkowlso on those of a few Europeans, mid yet tho united, musslvo, collective, grey matter of the Noo Zealand branch of the Borrltlsh Modlctit Association has not boon able to find out whether tho dlitonso Is tin uggravated form of chicken*pox or tho more foul and tircad snuUt pox. Whether It Id tho one or tho othor. It Is : up to tho Health Department and tho modicoM, who roapod a golden harvout of half-orownn for vaccination foes, to got buay and aoe now that thu opldemlo Ib In its dormant utngo. Tho dlHouao l« an ondornio one and bound i to return, so that qulto a lot of useful money muy bo uaved if oarnc«t In- ; voßtlgatton is conducted along proper \ aclentlflc lines.