SCARLET REVER

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23261, 24 July 1945, Page 4

SCARLET R EVER

Outbreak In Auckland iN.Z.P.A.I AUCKLAND. July 23. Inc seriouy proportion that the outbreak ol s.arh-l fever had non reached m Auckland was disclosed by lhe (hairman of the Hospital Board 'Mr A Moody at a meeting to-night, when he staled that extra accommodation would have (o be found to cope with patients. "’I here has been an alarming increase in scarlet fever cases in the last few weeks." said Mr Mood). “Il started in Christchurch, and the Health Department has been awake to it. The infections diseases block at the Auckland hospital is overcrowded, and the df’put y-medica 1 sup-’rinl end ent assures me that the position is desperate He asks for extra aeeonnnodation" are at present mor<- than 5U