SCARLET FEVER AT OWAKA.
We have received a communication *rom "'Anxious," Owaka., complaining of the manner in which persons haw Ixvn allowed! to visit houses in which there are. patieuta down with m:\ivlpil fevx, and then without takiiLjj any precautions, mXiii;! \t ilih other"; and oven u-iinjr the public telephone after comiiiß dim-t from a home in which tihore " was a ca-=;c of .scarlet fever m .its worst form. (Jen- rally the communication, complains of thowe who have '.hown j-'iieh gross indifference to M>readmg the fever amon'Sj ofhoi-s. We haw communicated with tins Health Office, and find that Dr O^ston has takeji Mpps to that proper precautions <uo ohi£>r\«'d, and lias sent special notices', as \\">ll a-i the onJ.nary notice, inliinatini^ tliat if t lie pro\ ision-5 of the act are noli ob^ii\cd proioefluifA will }.<e lAk^.Ti. He. haw alio oonimunicatcl with the media-J man in tho di-triet, and jrenorally dona c\er\ thing po^ibk- fihort cf sendmff aru iiis-|)'<-tor tc th<. <l>stn<-L to enforce- tlio rejrulalmns. This he is unable to do. as tha i-or\ices of tho Inspectors have been dis-pen*-dtJ with.
TViites th<> Canadian CourieT, published at Toronto: '"The present prosperity of Canada i-? ho gieat, and th°>re is co much profit in sight, that cur bu'inj.-s men ate almost afraid to take their summer hoiidays."-
'Although the mining industry of India 19 in. its infancy, employment is given to 152,000 joiner*
For the pvc;ent year nearly £2.500,000 ! will be spent in clothing and victualling for the British na\y
SCARLET FEVER AT OWAKA.
Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 57
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