TYPHOID IN AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8573, 5 May 1908, Page 5

TYPHOID IN AUCKLAND.

SPREAD OF DISEASE. A BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS. AUCKLAND, May 2. Typhoid fever has broken out at Cox's Creek, in the Grey Lynn borough, a district which has hitherto been immune from this disease. Pinned to a wall in the Auckland Public Health Office is a chart deadly ominous in its significance. The chart represents Auckland city and its environs ,and it is studded with little groups of yellow flags, representing the base of operations: from which (he typhoid operations have been tracked during the summer. In some of the suburbs, such as Newmarket, the tiny yellow emblems are thickly dotted, but until last month there was only one locality which had been free from suspicion, and that embraced the scattered districts at the back of Grey Lynn. The full significance of the typhoid scourge can only be gauged from such an illustration as this .and during the month of April there has been a steady increase in thu territory coming within the fevor-stricken area. Ore of the worst movements during the month hasbeen in the direction of Cox's Creek, where the- number of little yellow flags has steadily grown during April, with the result, that a group of twelve now stands out to mark the total cases reported up till yesterday. The outbreak has been a bad one, and in some cases as many as three arc down in the one family, one of the worst illustrations being that in which both parents and an only child arc all down with fever.