DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC.
WELLINGTON’S EXPERIENCE. MANY CASES IN HOSPITAL, Per Press Associatfcm. Wellington, August 18. The Health Inspector has informed the Wellington Hospital Hoard that eighty-three cases of diphtheria were notified during the past four weeks, fifty-one being from the Wellington City aera. The special ward at the Hospital was so full that at one time the staff had to place two patients in one bed. 'l'he Hospital Hoard discussed the problem of the control of contacts, regarding this at present :is too lax, but so full of difficulties that nothing seemed possible to be done beyond enforcing as far as practicable the precautionary regulations already in operation.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 18 August 1917, Page 5
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