HEALTH PRECAUTIONS
NEW ZEALAND METHODS. SYDNEY DOCTOR’S CRITICISM. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, October 4. (Received October 5, 1.5 a.mJ Serious allegations against the health precautions adopted in New’ Zealand to prevent the introduction of plague from Sydi ney are made by a weU-known Sydney medical man who returned by the Tahiti. He states that medical officers boarded the liner with about thirty thermometers and other instruments, examined the steerage passengers, among whom were several Chinese, then the crew’, and lastly the saloon passengers. The instruments were not properly sterilised, only being placed in a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic, which was practically useless. He added that it was a wonderful thing that no disease broke out among the passengers as the result of the examinations.
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Southland Times, Issue 19656, 5 October 1922, Page 5
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131HEALTH PRECAUTIONS Southland Times, Issue 19656, 5 October 1922, Page 5
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