THE PLAGUE SICKNESS
NO EXHUMATION OF BODIES MINISTER'S DECISION A largo .number of applications have recently been received by tlie Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. G. J. Anderson, from relatives of victims of tho influenza epidemic of 1918, for permission to remove bodies from the graves in which they were hastily buried, to family plots. The Minister lias given this matter very serious consideration, and after consultation with the Health Department has declined to take the responsibility of allowing any interference with tho bodies at present. In tho course of a few years, any danger of infection will probably have disappeared and applications for removal can then be renewed. Mr. Anderson is of the opin. ion that tie time which has elapsed since the epidemic is so short that there might possibly ba danger to the community if approval were given at prosent to the applications, and has therefore resolved to refuse in the meantime all applications for tho exhumation ot the todies of influenza victims for reinterment elsewhere.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 232, 25 June 1920, Page 8
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170THE PLAGUE SICKNESS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 232, 25 June 1920, Page 8
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