Regarding a contagious skin troU ,hJ® whicS waAecantly stated to have made its appearance in Auckland we are informed that similar cases have been re ported in Invercargill (states the South land Daily News”). According to medical opinion the complaint is an after math* of ‘he war. Dr. Telford. Chief edical Officer of .Health .at Christ church, expressed the opinion . disease might be what is dhobi-itch Th s h a form of ringworm from which Hindu washer woman suffer, and which is transmitted in Lu J o ß oa .“ v in clothes which have been washed to them. If not treated immediately it makes its apnoarance the itch will take up to two months to get rutaof, J M.d it is therefore necessary to take prompt measures to check it.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 5
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130Untitled Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 5
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