VOYAGE IN ISOLATION
FAMILY’S UNENVIABLE EXPERIENCE OUTBREAK OF CHICKENPOX p.A. AUCKLAND, Oct. 15. Because of a small outbreak, of chicken-pox, a woman and her two children in the liner Ruahine, which arrived at Auckland to-day, spent almost the entire voyage in isolation. Another woman and her daughter contracted chicken-pox when the ship was two days out from London. They were put into isolation in the ship’s hospital, and the contacts sharing the same cabin were also isolated. Two days later another child of the same family caught the ailmeht. When the ship was 20 days out one of the child contacts In isolation went down with the complaint, and just over a week ago the other member of the family caught it. The two children and their mother were in isolation until the ship arrived.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26904, 16 October 1948, Page 8
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