WARDS ISOLATED
NEW PLYMOUTH HOSPITAL DIPHTHERIA PRECAUTION As a precaution against the spread of diphtheria two wards of the New Plymouth Hospital have been quarantined against visitors, ahd only urgent cases for treatment are being admitted. The wards affected are the men’s surgical and the children's surgical wards. The men’s medical ward was closed for a similar reason about a month ago, but another definite case was found two weeks ago. Swabbing showed several patients and nurses to be “carriers.”
Three patients in the men’s surgical ward and three in the children’s surgical ward are under observation. Four nurses have been ordered to bed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 14
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