POVERTY BAY.
,The neod of an isolated place for infectious jlise&ses was shown -at Gishorne, when the ._ f Vlayor and town clerk had great difficulty 1 }n finding "a place for a child sent in from ihe country suffering from diphtheria. The hospital refuses such cases, and no provision 'Exists for them. Eventually, after .theofficials had vainly spent hours, a room in the Old Men's Home wa's made use of. A settler at Wharekopae, 40 miles from Eisborno, has found in a large cave on his . property two complete skeletons of nioas in preservation.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 34
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94POVERTY BAY. Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 34
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