CASES OF DIPHTHERIA.
OUTBREAK AT TIMARU. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, July 15. Diptheria is somewhat prevalent of late in Timaru and Waimate. Tho HoaBital Board to-day decided to ask the epartmont’s permission to use tho Talbot fever hospital for such cases, which are now in a separate ward of the general hospital, but have :no separate nurses. , • The board received a circular from the Department regarding precautions against smallpox, and decided to obtain a supply of lymph, to bo available to the medical men at tho hospital. The Department approved oI; the board accepting as a donation, Carrying a subsidy, a sum collected by’tho St. John’s Society for the purchase of a motor ambulance.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144146, 16 July 1913, Page 4
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114CASES OF DIPHTHERIA. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144146, 16 July 1913, Page 4
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