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Evening Star, Issue 16225, 21 September 1916, Page 6

At Christchurch yesterday George Thos. Booth, a prominent citizen, was charged at the Magistrate s Court with knowingly exposing clothing which had been exposed to infection from scarlet fever without having first effectually disinfected it or taken proper precautions against spreading tie infection. The prosecution alleged that defendant, whose daughter was suffering from the disease, visited her, and afterwards mingled with the public without having changed his clothes or taken any rteps to prevent infection. The defendant said he had rigidly adhered to the instructions of his medical adviser and when visiting his daughter, which he did only at night, wore a different suit from that which he did by day. The Magistrate (Mr Bailey) said he did not consider -the exposure was performed knowingly, and dismissed the case.