CROSS-INFECTION.
DIPHTHERIA PATIENT CONTRACTS SCARLET FEVER. ( _ AUCKLAND, August 21. “ This is not the first case, for a number of children have suffered from crossinfection,” said Mr W. Wallace (chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board) to-day when a letter from Mr W. L. Cliffe, stating that his little daughter, who was admitted suffering from diphtheria, had contracted scarlet fever, was being discussed. Mr Cliffe pointed out that as a result his daughter was in hospital for 13 weeks. “ This is what, we have been fighting against all the time,” Mr Wallace added. “It is all the result of hopeless overcrowding in the infectious diseases block.” It was resolved to charge Mr Cliffe ■fees for only half the time his daughter was in hospital, . • .
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Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 8
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