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Port Medical Officer at Colombo as smallpox, and removed to hospital there. All
passengers and crew were vaccinated on the 10th, and the quarters were emptied
and disinfected.
ss. "Dongola" arrived from Yokohama on May 12th. On the 21st March,
a lascar was landed at Yokohama as a suspected smallpox case. Infected quarters
on the vessel were disinfected, and the crew taken ashore, bathed, clothes disinfected,
and crew vaccinated. No further case occurred.
ss. "Frienfels" of Newcastle, 127,085, arrived on the 26th May, having
called at the following places:—Bombay, March 12th; Suez, March 24th; Port
Said, March 25th; Genoa, March 31st; Avonmouth, April 14th; Antwerp, May
24th. On March 28th, a coal trimmer was taken ill with smallpox, was isolated
in the ship's hospital and removed to hospital at Genoa on the 31st. Effects were
landed with patient. Crew were vaccinated. Infected quarters on the vessel were
disinfected.
ss. "Torcello" arrived from Oporto and Lisbon on the 28th June, 1923.
On June 24th a cabin boy complained of fever, pain in back and abdomen; rash
on face, fore-arms and feet, none on body. Patient not previously ill. Patient
was removed to Denton Hospital. Infected cabin on the vessel was fumigated.
Most of the crew were recently vaccinated, the rest refused vaccination
The crew remained on board the vessel.
Vessel left for Hull, via Antwerp, on June 30th, and the Medical Officer of
Health for Hull was notified accordingly.
The subsequent successful vaccination of this boy in Denton Hospital demonstrated
that the rash had not been one of smallpox.
ss. "City of Adelaide" arrived from Calcutta on 22nd August, 1923. On the
25th July a lascar reported ill with fever and red spots on face and arms. Pustules
appeared on 26th. Patient was isolated and landed at Suez on August 6th; patient
not vaccinated.
Bedding was destroyed and quarters disinfected. Rest of crew were
vaccinated.
All native quarters situated aft were fumigated at Gravesend.

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