Sheep Stations & Typhoid Fever.
To the Editor of the Standard,
Sin, —Perhaps now tint two deaths have occurred and cue of them a In go lauded prcpiietor, through an outbreak <d typhoid fever, something will bo douo to ensure (.• renter sanitary precautions on many </; too sheep stations in this distinct. Only hut year there was an outbreak of this dangerous inaladv on one of the Mali >a» tu the Lower Va’Uy. mid Severn! of the hands wcio taken id. Kvou persons who only w-uebt shelter for the night wa re at to "ked. theioby eat tying and dissenjinatiu;! i! thioie It tim cuniuiy ; pad si U no precautions are taken against it, not (V-.n the purchase of a iitUo disinfectant to scatter down nnoiv oj U;" foul drums tint exist u close proximity to the Junutiudd w.it* r supply. Inspectors ’•to fomointed at prc-at coat to see that rabi-us cm lioslri-yt.!, bt.iue liial Alice I a the s.jualti:"; interest, but 1 think it is hi; U time somebody w,.s cnur.'.vered to : aspect the sleeping accommodation in tins district, ns on smno of the stations men are competed to live crowded together in such numbets, pruicularly at shearing, that if is a wonder that disease is not more prevalent. 1 am, Ne.ho. Aprd 14, 1885.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1672, 22 April 1885, Page 2
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214Sheep Stations & Typhoid Fever. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1672, 22 April 1885, Page 2
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