ILL OF A FEVER
HOSPITAL, NURSES ATTACKED. (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON. April J«. Five nurses at the Wellington Hospital recently contracted a maJady very like typhoid fever. On further examination the illness proved to be para-typhold. a disease similar to typhoid, only of much milder form, ajid is not followed by any complications. Prad ically all the patients arc now convalescent. All the cases have been traced to one patient and. this epidemic has beet' particularly infectious. The Health Department made an exatninalion of the drains at the childrens hospital and found them satisfactory.
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Southland Times, Issue 17628, 17 April 1914, Page 5
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95ILL OF A FEVER Southland Times, Issue 17628, 17 April 1914, Page 5
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