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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144197, 13 September 1913, Page 7

There is one young lady in Sydney whom the quarantine authorities will allow to travel anywhere in Australia as long as she keeps her left sleeve rolled up (says the Sun). It happened this way: Curing the rush for vaccination this young lady, who is a nurse, was engaged as an assistant in a surgery. She loyally obeyed medical advice, and was vaccinated too. She asked the doctor for a certificate, as the vaccination had been undoubtedly successful. “Roll up your sleeve,” the doctor demanded. Ho picked up two rubber stamps. One printed the word “Successful,'’ the other printed his initials, “W.R.G.” He stamped them neatly on the white skin of the pretty round arm. “Take that up to the Town Hall,” ho said. The nurse went to the Town Hall, where tho officials knew exactly what was required of them. A quarter of an hour later the nurse was back at the surgery with the official stamp on her arm below the doctor’s certificate That is why she carries a full and adequate passport to travel as long as her sleeve is left bare to her, shoulder.