DIPHTHERIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 22 May 1919, Page 8

DIPHTHERIA

; 4 -*— OUTBREAK AT TOKAORA. It was reported at to-day's meeting of the Hawera Hospital Board that there was an outbreak of diphtheria in ; the Tokaora district, and that the : local school had been closed. i The chairman said that Mr John- :■ ston, of Tokaora, had interviewed him in regard to this matter. He had instructed the secretary to forward a letter to the Inspector-GeneraJ, and '. the Tokaora people would see that the Board was* doing what it could in the matter. The Board's letter to the Department was as follows: "We have to ad- > vise that there has been a recrudescence of the diphtheria outbreak, which appears to originate from a public school at Tokaora. I understand that the local inspector, Mr A. Gray, has visited the school, and reported that same is overcrowded, and that the school is now closed, and has written to your Department to that effect. It is suggested by this Board that, with .a view to preventing a fur- | ther spread of the disease, immediate steps should be taken, and it is sugi gested that perhaps the best method ' would be for the Department to send a man to spray the throats of the children. This, we understand, has been a practice carried out by your j Department in the past." >