SAFEGUARDS OF HEALTH.
QUESTION OF CONTROL, " There are some diseases which public health authorities from time to time are urged ,to attack, but which, . for the time being at least, are preferably left alone, because of their relative harmlessness, said . Dr. M. H. Watt, director of the Public Hygierte Division of the Health Department, during an address ;to members of the Wellingon City Council s sanitary department. " I refer now more Particularly . to chickenpox, German measles, and mumps, but there are others again in which administrative measures might well be omitted, not because of the harmlessness , ofi the disease, but because of the impracticability of control. Tinder present conditions, among this croup may be mentioned the infections of the respiratory tract, influenza, measles, whooping cough, and the. common cold. Until research has withdrawn the ve " which obscures the origin • of these diseases, until we know fully under what conditions they become epidemic, notification and isolation ( cannot be expected to be of much avail."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18459, 24 July 1923, Page 9
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