DISEASE CARRIER
Dr. E. G. Annie, medical officer of health for Greenwich, describes in his annual report how an outbreak of diphtheria was traced to a boy who delivered milk. There were 41 cases in one district, and Dr. Annis statce that all the families were supplied with milk from one dairy and that the cases were chiefly on one milk round. The boy wlio left the cans on this round was found to be suffering from diphtheria and was taken to hospital, after which no further cases occurred.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11693, 4 December 1923, Page 10
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89DISEASE CARRIER New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11693, 4 December 1923, Page 10
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