HEPATITIS INCIDENCE
Authorities Concerned "The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, May 2. The incidence of infective hepatitis was high enough for health authorities to be seriously concerned about it. said the North Shore medical officer of Health (Dr. C. E. Anderson) at the North Shore health inspectors’ conference at Devonport. The little that was known about the virus of the disease that attacked the liver and could cause vomiting, coma and jaundice indicated that personal hygiene, clean food handling and a pure water or milk supply was imperative for its control. he said. The virus had not yet teen isolated, but its cycle from excrement to mouth was known. It was known that the disease infected humans only, that there could be healthy carriers, and that chlorination had no effect on it
"The mortality rate Is low. one in 1000, but that is why the health authorities are so concerned at the 22 deaths last year known to be caused by the disease.” said Dr Anderson The first line of investigation by health inspectors was the water supply, followed by the food supply. The established route of the virus from excrement to mouth bad to be broken, he said. Hand washing, hygenic food handling and a safe water supply was by far the cheapest and most effective known safeguard.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 16
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