SCARLET FEVER
A MILD EPIDEMIC PREVALENT IN WELLINGTON (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Scarlet fever is shown to be prevalent in Wellington Province. Figures for the week ended at noon on Monday show a total of 66 cases and one death of the whole of New Zealand. Of these 66 cases, nine occurred in the Wanganui-Horowhenua health district, 15 in Wairarapa-East Cape district, and 13 in the Central Wellington district, while the remainder were distributed among the other 10 health districts, into which New Zealand is divided for administrative purposes. These show an increase of four over those of the preceding week for the Dominion. The Health Department has taken special measures to deal with the outbreak, and has communicated with all headmasters of schools, advising them of the epidemic, asking them to take all care to see taht no cases attend school.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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144SCARLET FEVER Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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