SICKNESS ON BREMEN

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1920, Page 3

SICKNESS ON BREMEN

TEN PASSENGERS AFFECTED. NO SERIOUS CASES. .y WELLINGTON, January 31 Advice lias' been received from the District Heiiltp Officer, Dr T. El Et\U is, that norm of the passengers who were removed from the transport Bremen to the Wellington Hospital on \\ ednesday were seriously ill, but in the interests of the well-being of the public health it was decided to place them in isolation and under me.dip.ql supervision so long as wj|H considered necessary. In all, f,en patients were dealt with, the complaints being diagnosed as follows Measles, 2 cases; scarlet fever, 2; influenza, 4. Referring to latter, I>r Farip said that the temperature of four of the sufferers had just fallen to normal, so that it was necessary. to segregate them for four days —thp igoiatiqp period. The temperature of the otjier two patients was , febrile,

In addition to the above cases, tour passengers who had suffered from influenza during the voyage to the Dominion, but whise temperature wasnormal for three days prior to tfid yesscl reaching p6r|>, wv'vo kept iii then; cabins overnight, so that the period of isolation’ be completed. Upon examination this, morning, they ware found to bp well, and accordingly were libera L fM; _______