THE SMALLPOX SCARE IN WELLINGTON.
TWO MOXOWAI PASSENGERS QUARANTINED. CA?K OF GERMAN MEASLES. (Fkom Ouk Own Cobkksfonden't.) WELLINGTON, March 23. . A lady r.apsengcr on the Monowai, which nrrived here on Saturday morning, took ill on the way up the coast, and as •there is juat a possibility that the case may be one of smallpox, the Health Department decided to take all necessary precautions, and accordingly the lady, who is a saloon through passenger from London, was conveyed to the Plague Hospital, where her husband was also taken, to be quarantined. The cabin in which the patient travelled in. the Monowai wa» closed up, and the whole vessel fumigated. The case is being closely watched. It is quite likely that it may turn out not to be one of smallpox at all", but the department evidently would rather be sure than sorry. The case i? under the charge of Dr Valentine, the district health officer. March 24. It has now been definitely declared thai the lady paaseugcr removed from the Monowai on. Saturday is tuffering from Germar measles, and not smallpox as> suspected.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2505, 26 March 1902, Page 53
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183THE SMALLPOX SCARE IN WELLINGTON. Otago Witness, Issue 2505, 26 March 1902, Page 53
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