OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 7

OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID.

SANITARY CONDITIONS AT WAIKERIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON? Jan. 12. At the inquest concerning the death of Frederick Logie, an inmate of the \Vaikeria Borstal, who took typhoid and died in the Waikato Hospital, Joseph Terry, health officer, said that the -drainage system at Waikeria was not satisfactory, the drainage being in open channels from the line of building. Nightsoil was dumped in an open pit two hundred yards from the buildings. The' Health Department this week had recommended the Prisons Department to instal a septic tank. Dr. Hoeken, medical superintendent of the hospital, said that Logie was a very sick man when he was admitted. Logie informed him that he had been feeling ill for ten days, but had not informed the borstal officers. The remaining three typhoid patients fiom Waikeria- were recovering. The Coroner (Mr. Wyvern Wilson) said that in view of the recommendation of the Health Department lie would simply find a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, that death was due to toxemia and heart failure ..