DANGER OVER.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 10

DANGER OVER.

*■ \ * , I ' SICKNESS AT PUICBMIRQ^ 0 ' s jiutL*' x*« V 5 v ' * PATIENTS CONVALESCENT. , : ■ ' j ' v7 7 " , i', 1 1 <■ *>0 1 ' i"' AtICKLANI),. February 25. t . Apart froia oae or two mote ' mild caßesj there %ere, no developments, tor, day -lit titer outbreak' of sieknosft Pukemiro. ' " / ' *" l)r." J. Boyd, Judical Ofietr Health South AiickJianC wlio vislie4 j Pukemiro, stated thatthd recovery/; patients Wen very tyblek, and they were all convalescent 1 sow.;,f" Precautions are taken to provent the spread of the epidemie,*# and .the patlewta - htuva been ia<i%tefl. \ Sample*. I of foodstuffs have beeh obtadti&a for an I analyisis tiibe made, and rigid teste; are ; ybeing conducted, Uxitil the results of these are known no pronouncement cad -be made us te the cause of the tfroublfy No flgurea'.are available of th 6 number affected by the epidemic}, but at least' 'l4O people have beea tjeatbd by'flits ■ tors. There *are no sfenous eases"' "fcjfc present, and it is stated that ibh&e is .no doubt that,the worst of the epidemic' is over. Patients in, the W&katj) Hospital are improving. 'J ,; r '-.f Dr. M. 1 M. Hocfcin, Medical Superintendent, tiial|uiy is'semes form of dysentery, but it& eiaet nature has not yet been ascertained., The 'ill', , ness is so violent .that it, brings abput exhaustion,' tyhiefc «dgh<' ha-vtf eaused | the three deaths which occurred. / ,i r, i,' i,as&, / If.