TYPHOID DANGER
SHELLFISH NEAR TOWNS
(By Telegraph—Pi-ess Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, August 3
Two people are seriously ill in the New Plymouth Hospital with typhoid, contracted after eating mussels gathered on a New Plymouth beach. One was admitted last Friday and the other yesterday.
After notification of the second case a warning was issued by the Taranaki medical officer of health. Colonel F. W. W. Dawson, against eating shellfish collected on the coast near a town waterfront. Typhoid carriers on ships might be responsible for germs in the sea, said Colonel Dawson, or they might have come from a sewer that discharges near the centre of the town.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 16
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