THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
The Health Department intends to insist on every case of infectious disease being reported, as many instances come to light of persons handling and manufacturing food stuffs while suffering from such diseases. Dr Ogston has been appointed lecturer on public health to the Otago University. Instructions have been sent to health officers inquiring into the incidence of cancer in the colony, with special reference to its occurrence among Maoris. Owing to the alleged causation of enteric fevers from eating oysters fattened in the proximity of sewers careful inspection is to be made of all places where oysters are kept. Cases have come under the notice of the Health Department where fruit is ripened not only in bedrooms but under the beds of retailers. The officers intend to watch tho matter closely. Mrs Brocher, Associate of the Sanitary Institute of London, has been appointed to deliver lantern lectures in country districts on rural sanitation and hygiene generally.
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Lake County Press, Issue 975, 15 August 1901, Page 5
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159THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Lake County Press, Issue 975, 15 August 1901, Page 5
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