CONTAGION.
IO THE EDITOR Of THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. SIR; —At a time like the present, when disease seems rampant, is it not prudent to exercise the utmost caution, lest its spread should become attiibutable to those in anthocity, ei it is a well-known fact that the germs of disease can be and are carried about from place to place in clothing, bedding, &c.? Well, Sir, here we have a hospital built at the southern extremity of the city, and the washing of the establishment is done by a person living at what is called the Half-way on the Porirua-road. The clothes, of course, must needs pass through the city. The water in which they are washed flows on to Porirua. Cows for dairy purposes drink it, and we, as a matter of course, drink the milk and use the butter. Hut apart from this, is it net possible that disease may be left throughout the city by the carriage of linen from the hospital, where we may say there is a concentration of disease. Then let not the warning be taken too late, as instance Christchurch.—l am, &c., Eaoleiiawk.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6329, 25 July 1881, Page 2
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190CONTAGION. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6329, 25 July 1881, Page 2
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