PRECAUTIONS AGAINST DIPHTHERIA
Steps have been taken by the Health Department to guard against the spread of infection arising out of the case of diphtheria detected on the steamer Wanaka. The patient was' examined, together with other members of the crew by a local doctor when the vessel was in port at Wellington, and he was sent to Hospital with a septic throat. The doctor did not think at the time that the suspect had diphtheria, and, therefore, he_ did not report, it. The Hospital authorities subsequently diagnosed the complaint as diphtheria. The Wanaka had left port two or three days previously, and the Health Department immediately communicated with its Dunedin branch, with the result that precautionary measures were taken by fumigation, as reported by telegram from the South,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 8
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129PRECAUTIONS AGAINST DIPHTHERIA Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 8
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