PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last niglit. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Michael Sullivan, a dairyman carrying on business in tho city, was lined 40s, with 28s costs, for a breach of the Public Health Act. it transpires that defendant’s daughter was found in November suffering from scarlet fever on premises used as a dairy. Warnings were given that the milk should not he sold from the house while the period of infection lasted. Later on the patient was found working about the premises, while skin was peeling from the body. Further investigation showed that a neighboring family amongst whom fever developed hud been supplied with milk from this dairy. Another ease in a second family was also suspected to have its origin from the same.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 697, 17 December 1902, Page 2
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