DIPTHERIA SPREADING
SERIOUS .POSITION IN HAWKE'S ; BAY. (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) ' Napier, June 2:j. Diphtheria is spreading in Hawkes Bay with" alarming rapidity,'despite all the precautionary measures that are bcini; taken. Some extent of. the outbreak may bo judged from the fact tha 1 - since January 1, 236 cases have been reported over the whole district, as coinpared ' with 77 ' cases for. tho whole of lust year, and 16 for the year 1!) M. Tn addition "to this numerous cases of scar let fersr have occurred, and occasional cases of infantile pr.raly'sis ar'o still bein-j reposed. Yesterday, cases of diphtheria were reported as under:—Port Ahuriri, 1; Napier (Mnnroo Street). 2: Havelock North,-' \; Hastings, 2. . ' To-day a; caso was reported from Hastings.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2805, 24 June 1916, Page 9
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120DIPTHERIA SPREADING Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2805, 24 June 1916, Page 9
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