An alarming statement was made by Mr Trumble at the monthly Board meeting of the Bendigo Hospital, viz,, that in Eaglehawk, there were no fewer than eighty cases of scarlet fever, and that one medical practitioner alone had forty on his books. The same gentleman also expressed the opinion that scarlet fever had been spread by none more than the. doctors themselves, some of whom he had known to go from infected houses, after handling fever patients, to Others that were healthy.
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Evening Star, Issue 4130, 23 May 1876, Page 3
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82Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 4130, 23 May 1876, Page 3
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