SPREADING INFECTIOH
A CHRtSTOHURCH PROSECUTION (United Press Association.) CHRISTOHTJRCH, Sept. 20. Arising out of the scarlet fever epidemic, -George Thomas Booth, a prominent cifozen, was changed! in the Magistrate's Court to-day with knowingly exposing clothing which had been exposed to infection from scarlet fever without having fh'st effectively diisinfeated it or taken proper precautions against spreading infection. The prosecution alleged that defenda-n.t whose daughter was suffering from the disease, visited l her, and! afterwards mingled with the public without having changed his clothes or taken any steps to prevent (infection. A number of medical men testified' that by such action there was danger of his spreading infection. Defendant said hie had rigidly adhered, to the instructions of his medical adviser when visiting his daughter, which/ he did only at night. He wore a diifferent suit from that he wore by day. The Magistrate, Mar Baiiley, S. M-, said he did not consider, the exposure was performiedi knowingly ,and dismissed l the case.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 26 September 1916, Page 2
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