PUERPERAL SEPTICAEMIA.
ANOTHER CASE AT KELVIN. HOME AGAIN CLOSED. -■ (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Juno 18. Tlie Kelvin Maternity Home has again been closed by the Health ' Department owing to the discovery of a case diagnosed as puerperal septicaemia. The patient ha« been removed to the Auckland Hospital, and is reported to be doing well. It is understood that there wore no other patients in the home at the time. The Assistant Medical Officer at Auckland (Dr J. Boyd) states that the home was closed on Tuesday, and the department is taking all precautions. _ Cases of puerperal septlcasniia at Kelvin last year resulted in the institution being closed until the end of January last. The Royal Commission, of which Mr F. Earl was the chairman, held an exhaustive iar quiry into the occurrences.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 7
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