CENTRAL OTAGO EPIDEMIC.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14528, 20 May 1909, Page 8

CENTRAL OTAGO EPIDEMIC.

SKINS OF ABATING. (Veo:j Our Ows Coimr.spo:aii:xT.) ALEXANDRA S., jMii.v 19. There appears to Imvo been a check nn I In; typhoid epidemic, as no furl her cases hitvo been reported t-ince Monday, when a little girl was taken to the Duiistuu Hospital suffering with (ho disease. This wakes 11 eases all (old, but even yet the local surgeon has other suspicious eases under review. Inspector Gladstone is etill hero making further examinations of residences in town, being accompanied on liis -rounds by the Mayor. At last flight's special meeting of the Borough Council the opinion of (he borough solicitor was read, (ho council having previously decided to obtain his opinion on its position. If, was decided that the )iecessary steps be taken towards bringing dairies within the boiough nuclei" the supervision of the council, both in licencing and inspecting the same. At the request of tlio Mayor, Mr Gladstone visited tho new waterworks, which aro being constructed from Butcher's Creek, and ho tool; some samples of tho water for analysis, in order to ascertain the purity of tho water. In consequence of the prevailing sickness several .social ciilerlainmeuls set 'down for this week have been indefinitely postponed. The suspected dairy has been disinfected, and the town race has been scoured out.