MR C. J. PARR'S EXPERIENCES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13150, 9 August 1913, Page 3

MR C. J. PARR'S EXPERIENCES.

The,.-Mayor of Auckland (Mr C J. Parr), who returned from Sydney this week,- informed' a reporter that people m business m Sydney would Have good reason to remember for a long time to come the outbreak of small-pox. One large drapery business, he was informed, had lost £300 a day as compared with the takings for the oorrqsponding' period last year. . Instead- of Sydney being , normally full of visitors now, it yias practically empty, and altogether business had been hard nit. Out of. 300 cases of smallpox recorded, nearly all came from the slum areas of Sydney, and the epidemic was confined to -Waterloo, Hurry Hills, and- Paddington. In the suburban residential areas, where there was ample air space and (jood sanitation, and generally wholesome cleanliness, and healthy conditions, there- had *been practical immunity. This, coupled with the fact that m New Zealand the* disease.had been almost wholly confined to the Maoris, -went to show that sanitation was., after all, the thing m fighting this, as many other diseases. Were these conditions ideal, vaccination, would be practically unnecessary.

The following letter from a correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury will probably be read; with interest just now: "I am willing to x risk my reputation as a public m&Q°if the worst case of smallpox cannot be cured m three days simply by cream of tartar. This is the jsure and ' never failing remedy ; one ouneo of cream of tartar dissolved m boiling water, to be drunk when cold at short intervals. It can be taken at any time. It is kinown to have cured m 100,000 cases without failure. I have myself restored hundreds by this means. It never leaves a mark, never causes blind ness, and always prevents tedious lingei ing. If the people would only try it ami report all cures to you, you would require many columns if they gave them publicity. _