THE FEVER CASES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 682, 26 January 1883, Page 2

THE FEVER CASES.

The following is the correspondence laid before the Charitable Aid Board regarding the two fever patients, who it will be remexbered were recently isolated in oar immigration Barracks :—Colonial Secretary's office, Wellington, lOch Jan. 1883.--J. E. March, Esq. Sir,-*-I have the honor, by direction of the Colonial Secretary, to forward for your information a copy of a letter, with its enclosures, from the Health Officer at Port Chalmers, with reference to two alleged cases oi typhoid fever amongst the passengers from the ship Taranaki. —I have, etc., G. S. Cooper. Harbor Office, Port Chalmers, December 14,1882— The Colonial Secretary, Wol'ington. Sir,—l Jiaye the honor to acknowledge receipt ot your..communication of 4th inst, with enclosures, relative .to («-o cases of ff.vor from tlurshin Tmnnahi, o<>.l jn jreph l-vtf co i'(;rvv-!ini (JusmJu rHraV

answer to the itsu-il questions required by the Public fleilth Act. which wore written on the accompanying form and duly signed before the vessel was cleared in ; also his letter to me of the 9th inst., which you will notice shows that the patient recovering from dysentery was not one of tho Erickson's. The Medical Officer .at Akaroa appears to be of opinion that Wilhelm Erickson hnd beet) under the influence of fever three days beforo leaving the vessel. If so, he mndo no complaint to the master, but, on the contrary, Captain Hird informs mo that he assisted the crew to weigh the anchor on the day of arrival; Edward Erickson appearing at the same time in perfect health. Care is always exercised before clearing a vessel in, to call in a Medical Officer whenever there is the doubt as to the health of any person on £ board, and I feel assured that no man having been on board during tho voyage to give particulars of the health of passeflgers and crew, a medical officer visiting the vessel referred to on her arrival would not have discovered ajcT disease. I would respectfully recotntnenlf that Mr March should make further inquiries respecting these cases, and learn if the hotel in Christchurch where the Erickson's stayed was free from typhoid fever before they went to it ; and here, I may notice, there is a discrepancy between the doctor at Akaroa and Mr March's dates. The former says he received Wilhelm Erickson into the Hospital on the 21st November, and the latter shows that he left the hotel at Christchurch for Pigeon Bay on the 28th November.— I have, etc., Wμ. Thomson, Health Officer. " Taranaki," Port Chalmers, December 9th, 1882. Captain William Thomson, Health Officer, Port Chalmers, Sir, —In replying to your request asking information as to the health of Wilhelm Erickson and his cousin Edward, passengers by my ship, I beg to inform you that, I was not aware of anything being the matter with either of the above upon my arrival here. They never complained to me of anj feeling of sickness upon arrival, or during the pas sage.—l am, &c, >Wm. Hiiid. The Board decided that Mr March shoald call attention to hhe fact that the date November 28th instead of November 20th was a clerical error, and that the letter should be received.