SMALLPOX.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 75, 2 August 1913, Page 5

SMALLPOX.

nothing very new.

THE DOCKERS’ STRIKE,

[By Electric Telegraph—(Jo ry right] [United Press ‘Association.] Sydney, August 1.

The doctors at Broken Hill have refused to accept the, Government’s terms for vaccinating, declaring that they work out at 2] per head. A feature of the smallpox epidemic is that the great bulk of the patients are under thirty years of age. The Maheno’s mails were landed, but the passengers have been detained aboard until morning. Ten smallpox cases were reported to-day in the metropolitan area, including a prisoner at Darlinghurst. There was some demur at his removal to quarantine, and eventually he was allowed to remain in gaol after being fumigated. Most of the gaol staff and some of the prisoners had previously been vaccinated. Two cases are reported in Orange.

AS AFFECTING FIJI TRAFFIC., (Received 8.45 a.m.) Sydney, August 2. Owing to the stringent quarantine restrictions at Fiji, passenger rater thither have been increased fifty per cent, and freights twenty-five per cent.

SUSPICIOUS CASE AT PERTH Perth, August 2,

A young man, a passenger arriving by the Riverina from coastal ports, developed a suspicious rash and was quarantined for developments.

N.Z. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, August 1

The following smallpox bulletin was issued at five o’clock this evening by the. Health Department:— The District health officer at Auckland (Dr Monk) reports two cases of smallpox in the Auckland Hospital district yesterday. There is a further outbreak at Waitara. Three deaths are reported hero, but have not yet been confirmed.

A case is reported from Waikare (Kawakawa way) as typical.

Dr. Corkwell reports three eases at Wairere, and eight cases at Tautoro, in the vicinity of Kaikohe. One fresh case is reported at Te Awamutu, and also one case at Tapwhare.

The district health officer adds that the latest accounts given by telephone and telegram certainly point to the fact the cases are assuming the more regular symptoms of the disease.

Nothing fresh is reported in the Wellington health district.

THE DISEASE IN AUCKLAND Wellington, August I.

Dr. Valintine left for Auckland today Confer with the local authorities and others on stamping out smalpox.' IIR Fringley, who returned to Wieflihgfon yesterday, emphasises that therfe is no doubt that the epidemic is smallpox, and that Europeans are liable to an attack.