OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX.
Tasmania Declared an Infected
Country.
(Peb Pbess Association.)
Wellington, This day.
The Government have received information showing that' the outbreak at Launceston is really small-pox, and of a serious character. Fourteen cases have occurred there, three ending fatally. Contrary to the usual custom, the Tasmanian Government did not scud notice to the various Colonies, and the truth was only elicited as the result of telegrams to them. A proclamation will be gazetted to-day declaring Tasmania an infected country, and all vessels arriving- from her ports will be quarantined.. Victoria has already stopped the Launceston trade, and quarantined the boats plying there. Three families who arrived here by the lonic were sent to the quarantine station this morning, in consequence of some of their children suffering from a mild attack of measles.
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Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5824, 29 September 1887, Page 2
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134OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX. Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5824, 29 September 1887, Page 2
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