INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The Sanitary Inspector, Mr. D. G. .1011, reported to the Maknra County Council yesterday that one case of scarlet fever was reported at. Titabi Bay during the month. One positive cas« of typhoid fever and live query cases had been reported at. Porirua pa and Titabi Bay. AH inhabitants of tbe pa had bi-eu treated with two injections of T.A.8., and samples of milk supply, sewage, waler supply and shell fish bad been examined. Tbe hospital was treating all six cases as definite typhoid fever till proved otherwise. All precautions were being taken to check the spread of tbe disease. Mr. Joll. who is also Sanitary Inspector for tbe Hutt County Council, reported to the council at yesterday’s meeting that 15 cases of scarlet, fever had been reported in Hutt County during November, mostly in the Eastern Bays and Hutt. Valley districts. The Hospital Board bad opened a temporarv isolation hospital nt 1 rontliam racecourse for nil eases over four lears of age. So fur most of the eases had been "of a rnild form, but the isolation of contacts could not be oyer-stressed if the jdisease was to be kept in cheek.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 65, 11 December 1943, Page 5
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