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Show Smallpox on a China Steamer. San Fbancisco, February 11. It has been ascertained that' the patient afflicted with the dread disease on the steamer "Belgic," arrived from Hong Kong yesterday, is a negro stowaway, who showed first signs of the disease when eight days from this port. He was immediately isolated. It is believed none others of the 273 passengers and crew have been infected. Quarantine officer McAllister has ordered the afflicted patient to the county hospital, and the remaining persons on board the "Belgio" are to be transferred to the hulk of the "Dakota," in the stream. If no further signs appear they will be released in fifteen days. The vessel will be thoroughly fumigated fumi-gated and be allowed to discharge her cargo. |