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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4933, 13 January 1877, Page 3

The Dunedin Star says The idea is gaining ground with the faculty in England and America that disease is occasionally disseminated through the medium of funerals. _ This view is strongly supported by a writer in the Lancet, who states that in England very recently there has occurred one fairly authenticated instance of diphtheria being diffused broadcast through the crowding incidental occasionally to a late ceremony. In America the question is ,beginning to receive much attention, and several cases have been reported of late where the tranmission of the disease from the corpse sjemed highly probable. The Suffolk District Medical Society sent out 400 circulars to medical practitioners with a view to ascertain the opinion of the profession on the alleged danger of permitting. public funerals of persons who had died from diphtheria. Two hundred and thirty-nine answers were received ; of these, 143 writers express a belief in the possible danger of contagion at such funerals, seventeen believe that there is danger from funerals in the houses of the.deceased, but none in churches; twenty-nine consider that in the present state of knowledge there is no justification in' prohibiting public funerals; while eight record circumstances which occurred in their own experience confirmatory of the proposition that peril may ensue; but the testimony these latter advance is not quite satisfactory. This ’ society, after due consideration, recommended that funerals at the houses of those who have died of diphtheria should he private, owing to possible exposure to the poison of the disease.

Strangers paying a visit te 'Wellington, and country settlers arriving in town, are very often at a lose to know which is the best house or cheapest general drapery establishment to visit for buying drapery and clothing. J. McDowell and Co. offer special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the city. They keep at all times the.largest -and beat assorted stock of every cl ass of goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland, which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, enables them to offer goods of sterling qualities at prices that cannot be improved on by any house in the trade. Every article is marked at a fixed price that cannot be deviated from, for ready money, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best 1 judges: the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. A full description of stock can be obtained from our catalogues and advertisement. Note the address—Opposite the Bank of New Zealand, corner of laimbton-quay and Wlllis-street, Wellington.—Advt.

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