THE MAHANA'S PATIENTS
ALL CONTACTS DISCHARGED. CoiftacU from the Mahana to the number of lifty, who have been segregated ou Somes Island for two and a half weeks in order that the Public Health authorities might, note any cases of fresh infliction, were released on Wednesday Inst. During their stay on lh» island the weather lias been uniformly fino (though the nights have been cold), and with the quarters nicely in order as the result of last year's overhaul, the neweomors quite enjoyed themselves and in some caws were reluctant to leave their temporary home, isolated as it was. The actual cases of scarlet fever are all doing well; that is to say, the fever is running its course without complications.-' ' The patients will remain on the island for another three or four weeks, according l to Me date they contracted scarlet fevcrjf One cable message from Wellington to Australia (vide Australian Press) slated that the outbreak on the Mahana was one of 6mnll-pox,' evidently confusing it with the outbreak of mild-small-pox in the south.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 263, 31 July 1920, Page 6
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175THE MAHANA'S PATIENTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 263, 31 July 1920, Page 6
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