DYSENTERY INCIDENCE
Fewer Cases In Malvern The incidence of bacillary dysentery in Malvern County seemed to be falling off, said the Christchurch Medical Officer of Health (Dr. L. F. Jepson) yesterday. There were 18 cases reported in the Christchurch health district last week, 17 of them in Malvern County. The eighteenth case was a young boy in Paperua County. Of those in Malvern County, 11 were members of families previously notified. There were also seven cases of infective hepatitis last week—a girt and two men in their twenties in the city area, and a young boy, a young girl, a woman in her twenties and a man of unknown age in Waimairi County.
A mate baby tn the city area had ophthalmia neonatorum, and a woman in her forties and a man in bis fifties in the city area had pulmonary tuberculosis.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19651221.2.59
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 6
Word Count
142DYSENTERY INCIDENCE Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in