THE QUARANTINE SYSTEM.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14820, 20 October 1920, Page 2

THE QUARANTINE SYSTEM.

(Per Press Association.) WEUJ.VGTO.V October Ifl

'I he Itoard of Health recently enipiired. at the instance of the Minlsti r. into the berthing ot the steamer Mahaua at Wellington after there had b-eit an outbreak of scarlet fever among the immigrant.-:. The Hoard concludes that the Health Department took ail rea-onahle precautions:.

[ A r>H|*ie-t w;>~ made for the Hoard':; I opinion generally upon the present -vstetn of i|iiaraiitiniitg in [>ort.s and the precautions' taken by the Depart m> nt against the introduction of disease by ships from overseas. The reply was as foliou-:- "Tile Hoard understands; that tin ti'Hinvmg procedures are available and hare been used by tile Health Department in tile ca-c* of vessels arriving in Xew Zealand waters carrying cases ot infectious drscastti:-—(1) In the ,-a-sc of minor infectious diseases, patients have been -ent into isolation llospii.ils already provid'd for such ca.-cs occurring amongst the shore imputation. ','2) In dangerous cas-s of infectious d'sca-as no epidemic patients have been isolated in quarantine stations along with contact-. The system of ref|iii."ttig contact's v.'br have Ikcii released to report to officers of the Health Department and private practitioners has ifeeti utilt--rd. The Heard considers tl-e procedures satisfactory and is of the opinion that the Department should continue to adopt them in future, at-, in the discretion of the medical officers 1 i tin Department, thev mav 1m- aitplit able."