CARE URGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 244, 15 October 1929, Page 10

CARE URGED.

BATING OF SHELLFISH,

ON POPULAR BEACHES.

POSSIBLE. SOURCE. OF;- • CONTAMINATION.

: : -'Only, two cases of typhoid -fcverbave ije'en notified; in Auckland.recently," ft &-±: : j:-. Hughes, Medical •Health this morning. v Soth were, fro® the." Public .Works camp at: rpoinV ■'. The cause; may haje^b'een, ; g eating of shellfish; but not oysters-,, . Bv. Hughes .referred to ;the fact W cases of tvphoid fever; in the sotttfcM been attributed to eating raw gjggv He said the public should be care.f ' J all : times in the eating ofrfg especially at .Orakei and.Mangere^| { seveiv years ago a number of infectious disease were "Mangere,. and occasionally there suspicions in" regard to Orakei- . ~Dr. H.VChesson, of the Health Deg ment, said that-the Marine was laving down artificial on the "Auckland coast at P«gg "picnickers and launch parties freq««' l .; W' was a- possible source of.«g inination.' There "was need of thegtc* • care-in the selectibu of sites for m ■ fe beds, -and popular beaches sboufci not chosen- At 'the same time; *MM should be-given to picknickers to;W. . ful." when " visiting places where mj were. ovster beds. '■.."'.'""• 't>