IN WILD FORM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 62, 18 July 1913, Page 5

IN WILD FORM.

THE POX EPIDEMIC.

CASKS GRADUALLY INCREASING

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] I United Press Association.]

Sydney, July 17

One reassuring feature of the smallpox epidemic is that it has continued to retain a mild form with the increase of cases in the past few days. The hotels and boarding establishments are feeling the pinch badly. There are very few visitors from the country to other States. The Hairdressers' Association has ordered all its members to be vaccinated, and other public bodies whose duties involve danger of infection arctaking similar precautions.

fn spite of all precautions, smallpox is steadily spreading. Twenty-sis cases were reported to-day, ten from one district, eight, being from one family.

COMP QLSORY VACCINATION

(Received 9.10 a.m.) Sydney, July 18. The New South Wales Cabinet has decided to introduce a Compulsor; Vaccination Bill as a matter of urgency when Parliament meets at the end of July. DISCHARGED CURED. A number of persons have heen discharged from quarantine as recovered including fifteen yesterday.

THE KAROOLA'S PASSENGERS Melbourne, July 18.

None of the contacts aboard th< Knroola have so far been discoverei to have developed smallpox. The bun for the other passengers continues There are about sixty missing.

Owing to the decrease in the passenger traffic, the Union Co. with draws the Willochra, which on arriva at Sydney on Tuesday will bo laid up Consequently there will be no steafhe: from Sydney to Wellington to-morrow week. The passengers who booked b; the Willochra for July 26 will be carried by the Maheno or the Niagara to Auckland, from where iho Com pany pays the fare by rail or steamer to Wellington. Cable reports from New Zealant state that the Health authorities reserve the right to re-vaceinate th<. passengers from Sydney.

TASMANIAN REPORTS

(Received 9.30 a.m.): Hobart, July 18

Tiie condition of the suspect a l)e Loraine has improved, and t;i. disease may notbe small pox. tie hv measles before leaving Sydney.

i'ne Mainganui, wfiicii is duo to day from Jius on ooat\ four passengers who travelled, by ,th, Karoola from Sydney 'to Melbourne They will be closely .watched.

POSITION IN AUCKLAND

MORE CASES

DISEASE LEAVING NO POCK MARKS.

[Per Press Association.] Auckland, July 17

The position in regard to the Maori epidemic in the city remains practically unchanged.

The total number of cases now un der treatment at Point Chevalier i

Dr. Spedding, who has charge of the patients, reports that all are progressing well and that some of them will be discharged very shortly. Amongst the convalescents no pitmarking has been observed. This marking was peculiar to smallpox alone, and sometimes follows chicken-

From various country districts ten fresh cases of the Maori opidemic were reported to Dr. Monk.

RE A SSURINC STATEMENT. Nelson, July 17

The Rev. T. G. Hammond, who has been working among the Maoris for .'!o years, speaking here, stated that the alleged smallpox was only a scare. The disease lie described as ake alee. Tie had known an outbreak six months previously run its course and not attack Europeans to any extent. The disease appeared among the Maoris at different periods, and therewag no need for alarm. Auckland, July 18.

Two Europeans have been removed from the city to the isolation hospital, ami a. suspicions case is reported, making a, total of thirty patients in the hospital.

THE TOKO SUSPECT

NO CAUSE FOR ALARM

PROBABLY GERMAN MEASLES

Yesterday a young man named Ingles, aged 19 years, working on a farm about a mile on the Stratford side of Toko, consulted Dr. Robertson, who not being satisfied, called Dr. Steven in to see the case. Ii was decided that the symptoms were sufficiently suspicious to warrant isu Jation ami the vaccination of contacts. To-day, however, the symptoms are sufficiently marked for the medical men to be quite assured that Ingles is not suffering from either small-pox 01 chicken-pox, hut that his complaint is probably German measles. He remains, however, for a while in the isolation war:] of the Stratford Hospital.