DEATHS FROM DYSENTERY
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. Twelve deaths have occurred from dysentery and 50 eases have been reported in-ythe; Auckland.('.Central health district \ shfee the beginning.': of tho; year. Thd;: majority -6f cases have been amojrgsMnons., -Knir cascswero uotified <fii)nng the liist'/L'wcck. ' - y Dr. Hughes, Medical Officer of Health, ;stated:*'. that :! dysentery was'; likely ; toaco;ntiiijip,-.while,-hot; ;weather: provaUodf-iaithough it' Mast not be'in--ferred that tho disease was confined entirely to hot weather. Occasional cases were likely.to continue, although they hop-ed/toehold the outbreak ■incheck. .;.- Dr.'/Hughes said the;'-cases, generally; ■wfcre of-;';i; more severe.'.typethan those tyhich had occurred' during; the previous two" on three suuniiers.'
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 18
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106DEATHS FROM DYSENTERY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 18
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