TEMPORARY SUSPENSION

Southland Times, Issue 20663, 19 April 1929, Page 7

TEMPORARY SUSPENSION

FRENCH VACCINATION ORDER

London, April 17.

Owing to vigorous representation by the English railways, the French vaccination order has been temporarily suspended. It is understood that the order does not apply to passengers from Australia.—Australian Press Association.

SMALLPOX CASES ISOLATED.

DISEASE NOT VIRULENT.

(Rec. 5.5 p.m.)

Rugby, April 17.

Sir Austen Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that the French Government had been given details regarding the very restricted character of the smallpox outbreak in England. All cases were now isolated in hospital, and as the period of incubation for the disease was over there was no reason to anticipate any further cases, nor was there anything to indicate that the disease was of a virulent A meeting to discuss the question was being arranged between British and French representatives. Infection reached this country on a steamship arriving at Glasgow from the East on April 1. Out of 1589 passengers and crew, only 44 smallpox cases occurred, and these were all in hospital. Vigorous measures had been taken by the health authorities to eliminate danger, and there had been nothing in the nature of an epidemic.—British Official Wireless.

A previous message stated:—A week ago several cases of confluent smallpox were discovered in England and Scotland among passengers who came overland from Marseilles from Bombay on the liner Tuscania, on which a case was diagnosed before she reached Marseilles. There was comment at the time that if more stringent measures had not been taken at Marseilles the disease would not have gained a footing in Britain. Now there is a fierce outcry at the French announcement that Channel passengers will be refused entry to France unless they produce a certificate of vaccination within two months. It is stated that it will kill tourist traffic and prevent the majority going to any part of the Continent.