THE SMALLPOX EPEDEMIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 8 September 1913, Page 8

THE SMALLPOX EPEDEMIC.

SE XSAT 1()X IX S VI) XIC V. { [Tv Eluctiuc Teekukai’ii- —Corviuuui l [United Press Association.J 1 Sydney, September 7. | A sensation was caused to-day when j it became known that live smallpox I patients had escaped from quarantine I and .spent several hours in Manly i visiting a number of .shops and hotels. They were arrested when voluntarily I returning to the quarantine. L'he 1 inmates of all places visited were i vaccinated • and other precautions j taker. i Eight smallpox cases were reported | on Saturday, and ton to-day. - AUCKLAND REPORT. Auckland, September 7. No more cases of the prevailing epidemic had been reported up to lour o’c’ock this afternoon, and the posit:o:i is, apparently, still improving. Mi dical students are reported to he doing good work in the North, and one who is travelling in the infected areas lias already vaccinated 600 natives. CASE IN AUCKLAND CITY. Auckland, September 8. A European, woman was removed from Drake Street to the isolation hospital. Another suspicions case is under observation in the same locality. A Maori woman and child wore received into the isolation hospital from Kaikohe.