SCHOOL QUARANTINED
OUTBREAK OF SCARLATINA; TWO HOSPITAL CASES GIRLS AT AMBERLEY HOUSE [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday Isolated because of an outbreak of scarlatina, the Amberley House Girls' School has been placed in quarantine until next Thursday. The day before the school was to have closed for the first term holidays, two girls were taken to hospital in Christchurch, and after a visit by an inspector of the Health Department, the medical officer of health, Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, quarantined the school for a week. No more cases have appeared. Dr. Telford stated to-day that the cases were of the ordinary type. There had not been any indication of scarlatina being prevalent in the Canterbury district, notifications not being any more numerous than usual. The school had been isolated because the pupils were at an age when they were susceptible to the complaint and there would have been an unnecessary risk of the spread of infection if they had been allowed to return to their homes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23033, 10 May 1938, Page 12
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