TYPHOID OUTBREAK
NURSES CONTRACT DISEASE
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening PbW')
AUCKLAND, This Day. 1 An outbreak of typhoid or enteric fever in the North Auckland district has been reported to the Health Department. Five members of a Maori family living at Kaikohe contracted the disease in a mild form last week, and are now isolated in the Bay of Islands Hospital. There are now six cases, in-s eluding three young nurses, in the Whangarei Hosiptal. It is believed that the nurses caught the fever from a Maori who was brought to she hospital and who was not suspectec. of having the disease. The nurses are Misses V. Potter, L. Hawkin, and A. Wilson. With the exception of one nurse the form of the disease is very mild.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 10
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