SCARLET FEVER

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10143, 3 May 1911, Page 1

SCARLET FEVER

CASES IN CHRISTCHURCH

There are still about thirty cases of scarlet fever at the hospital at> Bottle Lake, and Dr Finch, District Health Officer, when seen yesterday said that there were no fresh developments in regard to the disease, and no further cases had been reported lately. Speaking of the cases sent from Woolston to Redcliffs some time ago, he said he wished to correct a» statement that they had been sent from one centre to the other with the Health Department's permission. As a matter of fact, they were sent quite without the Department's consent. Inquiries made amongst doctors in different parts of Christ church yesterday seem to show that nearly all the cases of scarlet fever in the city have been sent to Bottle Lake, and that very few are being treated privately. Ail the doctors consulted said that there was nothing in the nature of an epidemic, and certainly nothing that might alarm the general public. A doctor who does a great deal of work amongst the children said that his experien&e was that they were, on the whole* at present fairly free from troubles of that character. He was not attending any scarlet fever oases whatever just now. Several doctors in Sydenham stated that, they had a few cases in hand, but that the numbers were not at all alarming. Influenza, on the other hand, is reEorted to be more prevalent than it as been for some time. Colds, at any rate, whether they have the influenza symptoms or not, are about, and are causing some anxiety on account of the troubles they may give rise to.