TYPHOID FEVER IN AUCKLAND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1790, 15 March 1888, Page 3

TYPHOID FEVER IN AUCKLAND

A fipeclal telt^ra'u to yesterday's Christohurch " Tolograph " Bays: — Dr 801 l resident physician at tho HoBplt&l, wrote to the Hospital Board yesterday with reference to typhoid f . ver wards at the Hospital , 13 0 states that there aro at present voder treatmont twenty-eight caaeo (oighteoa malea nud ten females). la nearly evary caae the patient wao ill some tlmo outside b.'fore ndmiialon, showing how important It ia that pa ieutf, if oraiug at all, should ooma imm?.diate'y tho symptoms ahow themselves. DuriDg the p»st aovc-n daya thirteen now caaoo have been admitted, aud Dr Bell pointed out th'U if ihi'a rato continues tho pro Beat accommodation will be qulta insufficient, and sjine froah arraagomonta must be made The ward* cannot be crowded, nnd there sooms little likolihood of the Btrain upon the spao© of <ha hospital being lessened. Dr Bell drew tho attention of the Board to the nocosßiiy for the fullest enquiry into the canae of the marked incr^aae Ittthe number of typhoid oaees admitted this year to tho hospital ward.