THE SMALL-POX OUTBREAK.
A Mysterious Visitation. [feom our own correspondent.] (Per s.s. Waihora, at the Bluff.) TASMANIA. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 3. With regard to the small-pox outbreak at Launceßton, there were six patients in three houses before the medical men found oub its character, and reported to the local Board of Health. Prompt action was taken, and a quarantine station was established two miles from town. Cottage hospitals have been erected, and patients will be removed from the infected houses, which have been guarded by the police. One patient has died, and another is in a critical state, and three more persons have I developed the disease. , The authorities are confident of being able to stamp out the outbreak. The origin of the disease is a mystery, but it cannot be traced to the Chinese in any way. The small-pox first appeared in the case of a married woman, and spread to the next house, and was , taken to a , third where clothes from the ' first house were washed. The medical men ) attending the patients at first mistook the I .disease for chicken-pox and. measles* ?
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6049, 4 October 1887, Page 2
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184THE SMALL-POX OUTBREAK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6049, 4 October 1887, Page 2
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