INFECTIOUS DISEASES
LONG SPELL OF IMMUNITY. By Telegraoh Press Association WELLINGTON, May 17. There has been a steady fall in the number of infectious diseases notified in New Zealand during the last five years, with the result that in Wellington, as well as in the other three main centres, special and elaborate institutions built for the treatment of fevers, have been closed through lack of patients. The Medical Superintendent of Wellington Hospital, Dr. H. Bayldon Ewen, stated that it Is not likely New Zealand will continue to enjoy such an exceptional immunity from infectious diseases, because experience has shown that they always occur in cycles. Dr. Ewen agreed there might be something in the view occasionally expressed, that the improved position was due to the simpler mode of living practised by the larger proportion of the people and their congregation less in places of entertainment as a result Of the depression, but it had been definitely established that infectious diseases came in cycles or waves.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 6
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