THE ERICKSON CASE.
From a report presented to the Christchurch Hospital Board on November £9rh by Mr J K. March, He secretary, it appeared that a man named Wilhelm Flicks!)!', a native of Finland, arrived at Port Chalmers on November '3th in the ship Taranaki from London. He was then ill, anlfering, it afterwards appeared, from typhoid fever. No medical officer sailed with the ship, and there was no doctor on hoard. The ship was cleared in on ail being reporte -1 well to the Customs officials. Erckson came to Chris'chnich on November 17, consulted a medical man, who prescribed for him, and stayed at one of ttie hotels in Christchurch till November 20, when he proceeded to Pigeon Bay, and saw Ur. Guthrie. l>n the 21st the doctor pronounced the illness to l-o typhoid fever, that it bad been in progress for at least ten days, and ordered Erickson’s admission to the Hospital. The scer-tary brought tho ease before the B .ard to show the necessity for a medical officer to inspect all passenger ships on arrival, and on the motion of the Hon. E. C. .1 Stevens the matter was refeired to the Government.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1078, 22 December 1882, Page 4
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196THE ERICKSON CASE. Dunstan Times, Issue 1078, 22 December 1882, Page 4
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