NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12878, 23 August 1910, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

■ . •— ; — .■■.-.■ ■^^•'■. f It is .rather a coincidence that; JBoth^ ; i in New Zealand. and Australia" tiifree* c infectious diseases — diphtheria/ ; ty- t photd . fevca-. and influenza— have' -t been unusually prevalent . thia .. year. \ Tii© similarity of «xj>erience suggests s some conaiection between the eases in j tihe Commonwealth and the Domin.- $ ion. ' ; It ig the opinion of medical men, j ] ' however, that infection "from 'Austra- ; lia to New Zealand, through passen- ! I ger traffic, is practically^: impossible, f They regard the prevalerjofe l of nnfeetfeus diseasJPs^^ both -oolin- , a tries as one of those mysteries wihjch h are uofc easily explained*