MENINGITIS CASE
Child Dies In Auckland (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 21. When the 17 months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Trevor N. Foote, Gunson Street, L’onsonby, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Wednesday evening, the medical staff diagnosed the case as one of cerebrospinal meningitis. -The child died within four hours. This is the first death of this kind in Auckland since the mild epidemic was reported from North Auckland some months ago. The chairman of the hospital board, Mr. Allan Moody, said that everything possible was done to save the child’s life. The history of the case showed that tbe child had been suffering from bronchitis. A Health Department officer said today that meningitis cases occurred which were not of an epidemic class. “People should not be scared because cases appear to be exactly the same as the epidemic variety,” he added.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 228, 23 June 1941, Page 6
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146MENINGITIS CASE Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 228, 23 June 1941, Page 6
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