LATEST FROM AUCKLAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 16 July 1913, Page 5

LATEST FROM AUCKLAND.

STATEMENT BY DR FRENGLEY

THE RUSH FOR VACCINATION

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, July 15. The chief health officer's deputy (D.1 Freiigley), who arrived from Wellington on Sunday to co-operate with Dr. Monk in suppressing the epidemic, visited <'tho* isolation .hospital at Point Chevalier yesterday afternoon. When asked, about the condition of the patients, Dr Frengley said that they wero ■all doing well, although some were suffering more severely than others, according to the stages of the trouble. A tow, lie s?id, had so far recovered as t<> be able to walk about, while ono or two cases were still acute, There were ten females and thirteen males under treatment in isolation, this number including ia young male European. The latter had almost recovered. "In tli© majority of oases," said the doctor, "facial disfigurement while the eruption i=. out is Very pronounced, but siSH they are doing well." In answer to a request for ian opinion concerning the nature of the disease. Dr Frengley said he preferred not to add to the .conflict of opinion. Howover, the interviewer gathered that ha is of the same opinion as the health ofiicer, namely, that the trouble is a modified smallpox. The doctor produced sevc.al photographs revealing the disease in its various stager,, and remarked that it iv.i.s possible for smallpox to be so mild as to cause medical men to believe that it was chickenpox. 1 Tins afternoon., the district health -officer •-■reported that another European had been discovered with the prevailing disease. He is a white man who went to the consulting rooms of one of tho publjc vaeemators in Queen Street and ■was then discovered to be affected The man ../as conveyed to the isolation hos'