TYPHOID OUTBREAK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1922, Page 6

TYPHOID OUTBREAK.

' : TOTAL KOW REACHES 123. ' BiEAXE AX KEHTAL HOSPIXAi. ADDITIONAL CASES THT.s MORNING. >even fresh cases or" typhoid were notified yesterday, which together with rive -more from the Mount Albert dis- ! : tr.et this morning, and another case. 1 brings the total to date to l-i:!. exclusive of those at the Mental Hospital, where there is quite a number of patients tinder treatment. Among yesterday's cases was one from Mountain P.oud, Epsom, and one from Grey Lynn. ; Another death has bc-n reported from - the Mental Hospital, bringing the total : death-roil at noon to-day to eight. The ! death, which took place yesterday after- , neon, followed on jaundice, complications. i Inquiries at the Mental Hospital this . morning elicited the flct that twenty of the patients are now convalescent. , The remainder, wtth the exception of : three cases, arc: all doing -.veil. "Co further cases have been reported. Two more cases were admitted to the I Auckland Hospital this morning. All 1 the patients with the e—-e-ition .jZ one or two are reported to be doing we!!. and are making good progress towards recovery. A further warning has benn issued br--1 Dr. Hughes, the District Health ("ifice. , with reference to precautions that : should be taken to keep flies a""ay from : excreta, and also from the ricir.;ty of food. He said that any negligence in • the natter wo'ild easily result in infection. The boiling of water and milk is also absolutely necessary. Inoculation Is still beinir carried out daily at the -flealr'n Office in Fort Str=et.| where a fair number are coming forward . for treatment by vaccine. There are adequate supplies on hand. During rhe ■ past two days Dr. Davis has inoculated thirty applicants. The total number nf cn*es treated with vaccine during the ■ epidemic until this morning is Mt!. , ' A* a meeting of the Auckland G'-am-,mar Schools' Board yesterday the chair- i | man (Professor A. P. W. Thomas i stated that on the advice of the Health Department a connection had lieen male I with the "Mount Albert s e wer from the school at Mount Albert. SCHOOLS REMAIN" CLOSED. It was decided by the Health Depart- j mens this morning that the schools in the affected area should remain closed. . and will not caoen at ail next week, when 1 the matter will again be reveiwed. ! A complaint trom the Mount Albert ! r district to the effect that the three picI ture theatres were aiowed to remain ) open, while the schools were closed, was i i referred to Dr. Hughes, who remarked that the schools were closed because it | was irraperritive that the water used for I drinking purposes should be boiled, j I Under present circumstances this was ; cuite impossible. He pointed cut that [ 1 the method of infection was quite dif- 1 • ferent to that prevailing in in-fhsenza | epidemics, where irfection was from the i ! breath. It could be readily seen that to j breathe atmosphere in a crowded j [ atmosphere was net spreading the disease. Privies and urinals were respon- ! - sisle for typhoid. * The secretary of the Education Board j i i Mr. E. C. Purdiej states that ner.t ; {will be regarded as the mid-year holiday j at the schools which are now closed. DR. HTGHE3 EULOGISED. ~ . -- I In trrs course or a statement, tne , chairman of the aluckb.nd Hospital Board paid tribute to the services of Dr. T. -T. Hughes, officer Li charge of j r'«" Auckland branch of the Healrh j | Department, who 'has conducted opera- ! I lures sin>-e the epidemic co-rnmeni-ed. Mr. Wall-ace =aid that Dr. Hugh.es ! had been personally acquainted with | every case that had occurred in Ihe j borough. His organisation was -o i thorough that he could indicate on *» | plan every hou?e where the residents -. had been ftrkken with fever. It was I the mo3t complete system that had 1 ! come under the notice of the speaker. c : Dr. Hughes and his staff were deserving f, of the utmost praise for the way in I wh'>h they had dealt with the outbreak . j in the opinion of Mr. Wallace.