INFECTIOUS DISEASE
LULL IN DOMINION THE CYCLIC THEORY (Pr.u United Press Association.) WELLINGTON', Mhv 17. There lias been a steady fall in the uumbei of infectious diseases notified in New Zealand during; the last five years, with the result that in Wellington, as well as in the other three main centres, special and elaborate institutions built for the treatment of levels have been closed through Inch of patients. The medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital. Dr H. Huyldon Eweu, stated that it was not likely that New Zealand would continue to enjoy such exceptional immunity from infectious diseases, because experience had shown that they always occurred in cycles. Dr Ewen agreed that there might he something in the view occasionally expressed that the improved position was due to a simpler mode of living practised by a larger proportion of the people, and the fad that their congregation was less in places of entertainment as a result of the depression, but it bad been delinitely established that infectious diseases tame in cvcles or waves.
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Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 12
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173INFECTIOUS DISEASE Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 12
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