JAUNDICE CASE IN ANTARCTIC

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28491, 22 January 1958, Page 17

JAUNDICE CASE IN ANTARCTIC

Precautions Taken At Bases No doubt the happiest man to go ashore from the United States transport Private John R. Towle, which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday from the Antarctic, was Mr Peter Mclntyre, the noted New Zealand artist, who had spent 10 days in isolation in the ship’s hospital convalescing from jaundice. Mr Mclntyre, who went to the Antarctic about a month ago to paint some of the beauty of the remote continent, contracted jaundice while at McMurdo Sound. Precautionary measures were taken at all the camps which Mr Mclntyre had visited in the Antarctic. When the ship berthed at Lyttelton, the yellow quarantine flag was flying from the masthead, but was lowered later in the day after the ship had been cleared by health officials. A United States Navy doctor, Lieutenant Juan Tur, of Puerto Rico, under whose care Mr McIntyre had been during the voyage, pronounced his patient as almost fit. In the evening, Mr Mclntyre left the ship and travelled to Wellington. The District Medical Officer of Health (Dr. A. Douglas) said that considering the close proximity in which men lived in the Antarctic there was a danger of jaundice spreading.