Precaution Needed.
[to the editor.] Sik, —Seeing that there are a number of scarlet fever cases in the town, could not some precautions be taken to prevent the spread of this infectious and dangerous disease? Could not the health authorities exercise their power by isolating those persons—especially children—living in the bouses in which there are cases, to prevent them coming in contact with children enjoying good bodily health ? The reason I ask is that at one of the Sunday schools yesterday a scholar look great pride in informing her class-mates that fche had a brother and sister suffering from scarlet fever. If parents are so ignorant or so thoughtless as to send their children to Sunday school under such circumstances, they are just as likely to send them to our day schools, aud by so doing may be the means of causing an epidemic of the above-named sickuess, when with a little care, such a grave catastrophe could be easily averted.—l am, etc., Health. Napier, Dec. 10, 1900.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9939, 10 December 1900, Page 5
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