SCARLET FEVER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15606, 3 May 1911, Page 11

SCARLET FEVER.

CASES IN CfUUSTCHUJICH

There are still about thirty cases of scarlet fever at the hospital at Bottle Lake, and Dr Finch, District Health Officer, when seen yesterday said that there were no fresh developments in regard to the disease, and no further eases had been reported lately. Speaking of the cases sent from Woolston to Redcliffs some time ago, he said ho wished to correct a statement that they had been sent from one centre to the other with the Health Depart-; ment’s permission. As a matter of fact, they were sent quite without the Department’s consent. Inquiries made amongst doctors in different parts of .Christchurch yesterday seem to show that nearly all the cases of scarlet fever in the city have been sent to Bottle Lake, and that very few are being treated privately. All the doctors consulted said that there was nothing in tho nature of an epidemic, and certainly nothing that might alarm the general public. A doctor who does a great deal of work amongst the children said that his experience was that they were, on the whole, at present fairly free from troubles of that character. He was not attending any scarlet fever cases whatever just now. Several doctors in Sydenham stated that they had a few cases in hand, but that the numbers wore not at all alarming. Influenza, on the other hand, is reported to be more prevalent than it has been for some time. Colds, at any rate, whether they have the influenza symptoms or not, are about, and are causing some anxiety on account of tiie troubles they may give rise to.