DIPHTHERIA CASE IN BUS
HAMILTON PROSECUTION. telegraph.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Friday. A warning to people suffering from infectious diseases was given in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day, when a married woman, Ivy May Johansen, was prosecuted by the Department of Health for allowing her daughter, who was suffering from diphtheria, to travel in a public conveyance. Mr. Gillies, who appeared for the department, said that the object of the prosecution was not so much to have a penalty inflicted on Mrs. Johansen, as to bring home to the public the seriousness of the offence. If people suffering; from infectious disease were to travel indiscriminately in buses and other public conveyances, a serious menace to the community was constituted. In the present case, he was satisfied that there was nothing deliberate in defendant's action, and he suggested a conviction with the payment of costs only. Mrs. Johansen said that she had taken her little girl to the doctor for treatment the day previous, and had been told to' bring her back flie following day. In her ignorance she thought she could take the child in the bus. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs, 7s only.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19231208.2.90
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 12
Word Count
195DIPHTHERIA CASE IN BUS New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 12
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.
Log in