Cases of enteric fever have been reported from Christchurch city, Methven and Tirharu, and the source of the infection has not yet been traced. The Medical Officer of Health (Dr T. Fletcher Telford) draws attention to the necessity, as a precautionary measure, of people who are holding picnics boiling all water taken from streams or wells, and also the necessity of boiling all milk obtained from sources other than a registered dairy. The Addington workshops close down to-day for three weeks. It is usual for the shops to put off their men for a fortnight without pay, and in busy times in the past the break has been as low as ten days, A number of employees, 48 altogether, will be put off permanently to-day. Most of them are
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 11
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