CURRENT TOPICS.
FUMIGATION OF TRAINS,
At a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board on Friday, the secretary said that no reply had been received from the Railway Department to the Board's communication requesting the daily fumigation of the railway carriages during the period of the smallpox epidemic. One of the members said the more he thought over the matter, the more be was convinced that daily fumigation of the railway carriages" was necessary. He (the speaker) had been a sufferer through neglect of this, as it was directly due to a disease contracted in a railway carriage that he had lost one of his family. He had seen one boy in a railway carriage peeling with scarlatina, and although the railway carriages were fumigated yjn definite instances, yet there should be a periodical fumigation, as many persons travelled about by the railways who sometimes were unaware that they were suffering from infection, while others knowing their condition still went about from place to place. It was decided to write to the Railway Department requesting an answer to the Board's former communication on the matter.
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Northern Advocate, 1 September 1913, Page 4
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