OYSTERS AND TYPHOID
OBSERVATIONS COMPLETED,
STATEMENT BEING PREPARED
(Per Press Assndntion. —Copyright.) DUNEDIN, This Day
Dr. T. MacKibbin, Director of Public Hygiene, said that Dr. Telford, of Christchurch and himself had completed their obesrvations as to the oyster industry at the Bluff and they would be embodied in a report to tho Minister of Health.
The Department, he added, was preparing a comprehensive statement on the subject of typhoid generally and possibility of oysters being the cause of that disease Would be one of. the questions dealt with in the statement.
There had been 30 cases of .typhoid in Canterbury this year, many of them well away from even the suggestion of oyster origin. The investigations fit hand include all New Zealand oyster beds from which supplies are marketed.
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Northern Advocate, 25 October 1929, Page 7
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129OYSTERS AND TYPHOID Northern Advocate, 25 October 1929, Page 7
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