A STRANGE EPIDEMIC.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, this day. An extraordinary epidemic of sickness is prevalent here, and .seems, rather on. the increase. The symptoms are acute diarrhoea., vomiting, cramps in the legs and lower part of the abdomen, intense thirst, pointing to the sickness being apparently of toxic origin. When questioned as to the immediate cause, medical men can only state that so far they are baffled in this respect. A circular was issued yesterday by Dr. Makgill, District Health Officer, to all medical men in town, asking for detailed inform-aiion to enable the Health Department to thoroughly investigate it lie matter. Some are of the opinion that the sickness has boen imported by returned troopers, but one medical man asserts that none of the troopers1 had anything like the same symptoms.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9547, 30 September 1902, Page 2
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133A STRANGE EPIDEMIC. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9547, 30 September 1902, Page 2
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