TYPHOID FEVER CASES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20386, 15 October 1929, Page 10

TYPHOID FEVER CASES.

PATIENTS AT WELLINGTON.

EATING OF RAW OYSTERS.

[BY telegraph.—own correspondent. 3

WELLINGTON, Monday

The Department of Health has drawn attention to tho fact that at present there aro three cases of typhoid fever in tho Wellington Hospital. It has been ascertained that tho only thing in common in these three cases is that the patients had all eaten raw oysters. Tho public is advised as a precaution in the meantime not to eat oysters unless they are well cooked. Telegrams from Christchurch have referred to several cases of typhoid fever in that city, and the eating of raw oysters is given as a possible cause. Two cases are reported from other towns in tho South Island, in which cases also raw oysters were eaten. Further inquiries are being made by tho Health Department.

OUTBREAK AT OHRISTOHURCH.

HEALTH' OFFICER'S OPINIONS.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday.

No further cases of typhoid fever havo been reported at CHristchurch. As to tho origin of the six cases reported, Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, medical officer of health, said everything pointed to contamination from outside the health district, in other words, tainted oysters. No other factor, he said, had been discovered to explain tho cases.