SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 128, 6 July 1914, Page 7

SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.

IS NEW ZEALAND FREE?

By C&blt. —Prttt Association. —Copyright, MELBOURNE, July 5.

Speaking with reference to the declaration that New Zealand was f»ee of smallpox, Dr Cunipston, Federal Director of Quarantine, stated it was a great pity that Sydney was unable to show the same satisfactory state as New Zealand. During the whole time that smallpox was raging in New Zealand, no case was imported to Australia.

Dr Armstrong, of the 'Board of Health, later contradicted Dr Cunipston 's statement, averring that one case discovered at Newcastle came from New Zealand.

A PASSENGER FROM SYDNEY.

* TROUBLE IN MELBOURNE. (Received July 6, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 6. On Friday the steamer Earoola arrived from Melbourne, and she had a smallpox patient aboard who; went from Sydney a week ago. He stayed at .a coffee palace in Collins Street, and the place has been disinfected. The Victorian authorities are resuming their strict examination of people arriving by sea, or overland, from Sydney.