SPINAL MENINGITIS
I ♦ ANOTHER MAORI PATIENT \ (0.c.) KAWAKAVA. Friday I Since the-week-end there have been I four cases of spinal meningitis in the 1 Bay of Islands district, one patient dying. Two Maori children died last week-end and one from the same family is still in hospital, bat it is not conj elusive that these were suffering from jj spinsi meningitis. The youth who was brought into the ) Kawakawa Hospital from Kerikeri yesterday as a suspect has not Wn con- ! firmed as suffering from meningitis. I Health Department officials hare traced ; this case to contact with the other j cases at Kawhiri. f A Maori child aged two and a-half. ' living close to the other family at Kawhiti. was admitted to the hospital to-day suffering from meningitis. One of the children from the first family has died from the disease and the other is still in hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24009, 5 July 1941, Page 10
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