Contagious Diseases.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 3571, 29 June 1903, Page 4

Contagious Diseases.

THE ; BMAJCjLPQ2I outbreak. Launceston, June 26. A quarantine station, fully staffed and equipped, Las been established. All the 'patients' are progressing favourably. - AH the mails are being fumigated. Passengers leaving trains are carefully examined and vaccinated, if without a certificate. There are two more casesjof smallpox in the .city. Several suspects are under observation. A case is also reported at Beaconsfield, twentyaix miles from Launceston. The tour of the visiting team of South Melbourne has been interrupted “by the smallpox outbreak. After being , vaccinated they will return: They'are not allowed to proceed to Hobart, where jsnfue o i a'cbes were arranged Hobart, June 26. The Premier cabled to Mr Seddou asking for the relaxation of quarantine regulations on vessels arriving direct from Hobart. He points out ttiis is distant from the scene of outbreak and every precaution is taken. Wellington, June 27. Mr Seddon has sent the following cable to the Premier of Tasmania “The New Zealand Government does not see its way to relieve vessels from Tasmania from quarantine. From the cabled news it appears that one of the Australian States has taken the same precaution, I sincerely trust the steps you have taken may slay the spread and stamp out the dreadful disease. You may rely upon this colony withdrawing quarantine immediately the conditions of your colony will enable us with safety to do so.” THE STBIOTEST PRECAUTIONS ENFORCED, TWO FRESH GASES. Launceston, June 27. A proclamation has been issued

bringing the Health Act iu force throughout Tasmania. The outbreak has paralysed trade in the city and numbers of employers are dischargin'- men. A meeting oi ministers of various denominations decided to keep the churches and Sunday schools open. Hobart. June 27. Seventy-two members of Williamson’s Opera Company nycrp vaccinated at Hobart before leaving Sydney. They abandoned their Launceston season. AH the Australian States are enforcing the strictest precautions. Two fresh oases of small-pox have occurred in the suburbs. The supply of lymph is exb austed and, vaccination consequently suspended. A supply is expected next week from New Zealand. THE PLAGDE.~ THE AUCKLAND CASE. Auckland, June 27. The patient whom Dr Makgill yesterday wired to the Health Department as suffering from plague, resides at Ponsonby. He has been isolated more than a week in a building near the hospital suffering from tumour, with feverish symptoms. The first tests by the health officer with matter from the tumour produced no evidence of plague bacillus, but subsequent tests have led Dr Makgill to the conclusion that the case is plague. The patient is progressing favourably.