MENINGITIS
CAMBRIDGE SUSPECTS Hamilton, Sept., 9. Au officer of the Health Department at Hamilton staled to-day that only one of the two cases admitted to the Waikato Hospital from the Cambridge district was a positive case of spinal meningitis. Two children from the one family had been admitted, but one of them was suffering from pneumonia. As was usual with cases of this kind, the patiept was examined for signs of meningitis. The other case, said the officer, admitted a week later, was a positive one, but there was no cause for alarm, and all necessary precautions had been taken.—P.A. DEATH AT lIAWERA DIAGNOSIS NOT CONFIRMED New Plymouth, Sept., 9. Meningitis, which does not appear to have been of the cerebro spinal type, caused the death of a patient at the Hawera Hospital 10-day. Pending confirmation of the diagnosis, members of the deceased’s family have been isolated. The medical officer of health for Taranaki, Dr J. H. Blakelock, said death was only possibly due to cerebrospinal meningitis, and the only other case of meningitis reported in the whole of Taranaki was a very mild one in the New Plymouth Hospital.—P.A. ft
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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191MENINGITIS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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