WHOOPING COUGH
SIXTY CASES AT CANTERBURY SCHOOL Sixty cases of whooping cough in tho Shirley distnct have caused the junior department of the school to be closed, says a Christchurch newspaper. All pupils from Standard I. downwards have been ordered to remain at home. ■ Shirley is the only school which has been badly affected by whooping cough, although there are cases m other districts. Whooping cough cases are usually expeiienced in fairly largo numbers in the spring, but this year they are later than usual, said tho medical officer of health, Dr. T. Fletcher Telford. He added that it was better for the cases to come at this timo of the year, for there was not the same danger of complications ■is there -was in colder we-.Ahi-r.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 10 December 1931, Page 10
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