SMALLPOX IN SHIP
MILD CASE REPORTED PABSENG ER3 EF] STRICT ED VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A message from a passenger nhoard the steamer Mataroa, now at Panama on the way to New Zealand, states that the vessel's passengers were unable to land at Curacao or Jamaica, owing to the diagnosis of smallpox by the port authorities in a passenger returning to New Zealand. The man became dl soon after sailing. It was supposed he was suffering from chiekenpox, hut rigid isolation of the family and vaccination of contacts was enforced. The British authorities wirelessed that there ljad been no smallpox during the past year in England. Nevertheless a notice was posted at C'nracao urging vaccination, and a second notice at Jamaica that the New Zealand authorities insisted on vaccination. A majority of the passengers and all of the crew were vaccinated. The passengers were permitted to land at Panama, hut a Panama paper described the ease as "mild smallpox." The patient's quarantine expires on Tuesday. Ail are well on board and very i cheerful, thanks to the excellent work/ of the captain and ollicers to mitigate the disappointment and to provide entertainment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19152, 22 October 1936, Page 6
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