CONCERNING PUBLIC HEALTH.
(by telegraph—press association.) Wellington, This Day. The Health Department intends to insist of every case of infectious disease being reported, as many instances have come to light of persons handling aad manufacturing food stuffs while suffering from such diseases. Dr< Ogston has been appointed to give lectures on publ c health to the Otago University. Instructions have been sent to the health officers to engdire into the incidence of cancer in the colony with ft special reference to its occurrence among Maoris. Owing to the alleged causation of enteric fever from eating oysters fatted in proximity to sewers, a careful inspection is to be made of a’l places where oysters are kept. Cases have come under the notice of the Health Department where fruit ripened not only in bedrooms, but under the beds of retailers and officers, and they intend to watch the matter closely. Mrs Bracher, associate of the Sanitary Institute of London, has been appointed to deliver lantern lectures in country districts on rural sanitation and hygene generally.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 August 1901, Page 3
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173CONCERNING PUBLIC HEALTH. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 August 1901, Page 3
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