Dance Hall Patron Fined
A labourer, John Edgar Lewis, aged 46, was fined £3, with 12s costs, on a charge of having liquor in his possession in the vicinity of a dance hail whilst a patron of the dance in progress when he came before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., at last week’s monthly sitting of the Ruatoria Magistrate’s Court.
Eighteen Fresh Casas Half the total of 18 cases of infectious and notifible disease reported at the Gisborne office of the East Cape health district for the week ended at noon yesterday were of pulmonary tuberculosis and 'in addition there was one case of non-pulmonary tuberculosis. The increase is accounted for by the fact that one of the routine inspections was made on the Coast, bringing to the office’s notice several previously unreported cases. The other cases included three of scarlet fever, two of typhoid fever and one each of diphtheria, cerebo-spinal meningitis and tetanus. Three deaths resulted one each from tetanus, pulmonary tuberculosis find typhoid fever.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 4 September 1945, Page 4
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