DIPHTHERIA IN WELLINGTON.
•-—o < i [Peu Press Assocuttos.j < WELLINGTON, August 18. \ Tho health inspector has injormed \ the Wellington Hospital Board that i eighty-three eases of diphtheria wore- < notified during the last four weeks, { fifty-ono being Prom tho Wellington ( city area. Tho special ward at tho i hospital wan so full at one. timo that? ' tho authorities had to placo two pa- j tients in one bed. i Tho Hospital Board discussed the I problem ot tho control of contacts, re- * garding this as at present too lax, but * considered that it was so full of dfjfi- f cultie9 that nothing seemed possible,, to bo dono beyond, enforcing as far as practicable the precautionary regula- % tioiis already in operation. v
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12089, 18 August 1917, Page 9
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