INFECTIOUS DISEASES
NEW ZEALAND'S HAPPY POSITION [PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION’.] WELLINGTON. Maj' 17. There lias been a steady fall in the number of infectious diseases notified in New Zealand during the last five years, with the resfilt that in Wellington as well as in other main centres, special and elaborate institutions built for treatment of fevers, ■ have been closed through lack of patients. The Medical Superintendent of Wellington hospital, Doctor H. Bayldon Ewen, states it is not. likelj' that New Zealand will continue to enjoy such exceptional immunity from infectious diseases because experience has shown they always occur in cycles. Dr. Ewen agreed that there might be something in the view occasionally expressed that the improved position is due to a simpler mode of living practised by a larger proportion of the people and their congregation less in places of entertainment as a result of the depression, but it had been definitely established that infectious diseases came in cycles or waves.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1934, Page 12
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