SMALL-POX.
THE SOUTHERN OUTBREAK. f (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. In view of the fact that in the Southland district the epidemic of mild smallpox shows a tendency to increase, the Health Department is now urging the advisability of a general vaccination in the Otago Hospital District. The outbreak appears to be about stationary, and in the Vincent and Oamaru districts no fresh eases have been reported. FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS. IN V PIRCARGILL, Monday. Two further notifications of guild smallpox brings the number of cases in the Southland Hospital District to fourteen, ten being in Invercargill and four at Gore. All the contacts have been quarantined, and the District Health Officer issues a. further warning to the public regarding the wisdom of submitting to vaccination.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14126, 25 May 1920, Page 6
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