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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3997, 22 November 1918, Page 2

DANGER OF INFECTION. Lieutenant-Colonel Makgill, ActingDistrict Health Officer, ,has made an interesting statement in reference to the danger of infection from those nursing influenza patients. ■* He said that some people seemed scared that contact with attendants from t,ho hospitals would cause infection. As a matter of fact, he pointed out, there is no clinical evidence that the disease is carried by a third person. All agree that the transmission of the infection is directly from one patient to another. The organisms carrying the disease die very rapidly,