MENINGITIS
Fatal Case At Hawera
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 9. Meningitis, which does not appear to have been of the cerebro-spinal type, caused the death of a patient at the Hawera Hospital to-day. Pending confirmation of the diagnosis members of the deceased’s family have been isolated. The medical officer of health for Taranaki, Dr. J. H. Blakelock, said the only other case of meningitis reported in the whole of Taranaki was a very mild one in the New Plymouth Hospital.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22064, 10 September 1941, Page 4
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80MENINGITIS Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22064, 10 September 1941, Page 4
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