SCARLET FEVER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 114, 5 July 1911, Page 5

SCARLET FEVER.

EPIDEMIC IN CANTERBURY. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, July 4. The present accommodation at the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Bottle Lake is proving inadequate, and, despite the expenditure of several hundred pounds on the hospital, further expenditure will be required for the construction of an extension of the buildings that is needed immediately. The epidemic of scarlet fever now prevalent is recognised as being of a most persistent flature, states the chairman of the Hospital Committee, apd, though when the extension recently made was completed it was reported that the hospital was capable of accommodating a maximum of forty cases, that number has been exceeded several times this season, the majority of the cases being scarlet fever. There was no use shutting one’s eyes to the feet that this disease is widespread throughout the district, protests to the contrary notwithstanding. The number of cases treated at Bottle Lake, and they by no means represent 'the total in the district, has exceeded forty during the last few months, and is at present forty-five. The maximum was reached throe or four weeks ago with forty-nine cases.