INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(By Telegraph.—Press ______;iatiwi_).jP',-i- ------■'.■■ .;.u._s____. DT-NEDIN; this dayi ('" In connection with the death af'.tai.".".. infant from diphtheria,, a Dunedin- jury, • commented strongly upon the negiect-qf-the health authorities to take.'____)h, ...- and drawing attention to the absence... of any place for i-dlatioh of infectious.; - diseases, and conveyances for' patients. The Health Department's, reply Vis. .t0,1... the effect that they reported the- case ■ to tbe hospital authorities, ■ and, that , : they took no steps in the _nattery._h___gh'', it was their duty to provide ____ such j . cases. • "' ~" '■' ■ : i ,',' Mr. Miller, ex-chairman of the Hospital Board, referring to a complaiht made . regarding a ■ diphtheria . case, says 'the • Dunedin Hospital- was"hot" mestiit foic -, infectious cases, arid ; its r by-_aws did -not ■- allow of such patients"being : taken-in.--™-
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 164, 11 July 1907, Page 5
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