Typhoid checks to well

Press, 9 December 1976, Page 6

Typhoid checks to well

PA Auckland Everyone who had had contact with the two typhoid victims in Auckland Hospital should have been checked by the Health Department by the end of the week, a Health Department spokesman said yesterday.

The department was now following up all contacts of the couple, Mr Robin Towns, aged 25, and his wife, Judith, aged 23, said the Takapuna health district supervising inspector of health (.Mr D. J. Lyons).

The problem was not a big one because only a few people were involved, he [said. The check should be completed by the week-end. The couple and their two children, Holly, aged two, and Tricia, aged 10 months, are in the infectious-diseases ward of the hospital. They have not shown signs of the disease.

The family returned to New Zealand on a British Airways flight from London. Some reports have suggested they may have picked up the disease in New Delhi, but the department has said it was hard to pinpoint where it was contracted.

The family is expected to be in hospital for two or three weeks being treated with antibiotics.

Golf.—A mixed tournament held bv the Central Canterbury Golf Sub-Association at Hororata < resulted: Gross, E Tweedy and Miss D. Hutchinson, 76; S. Oliver and Mrs R. Clark. 78. Net, K. 1 Rennell and Mrs Rennell, 67, by I lot from D. J, Tucker and Mrs i Tucker, 67.