SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC
WIDESPREAD IN WELLINGTON DISTRICT Wellington, Aug. 19. Scarlet fever in a mild form is widespread in the Wellington central health district, which extends as far as Wairarapa. Tile epidemic started in August, 1943. when notifications Jumped from 15 to fffi a month. Now they are much higher and since May have been approximately 250 a month. Additional hospital accommodation has had to be provided. Children's wards in hospitals are closed to all visitors. The District Medical Officer of Health states that the type is mild and that lh addition to the cases notified there are undoubtedly a great many more undiagnosed cases or cases treated too lightly, thus leading to far spreading of the disease. Overcrowding of trains, trams and buses is his opinion another main cause. The closing of schools he considers ineffective in that it leads to more general contact with contacts. There have been four deaths since August, 1943.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 16 August 1944, Page 4
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