FIGHTING DIPHTHERIA
OUTBREAK AT POKENO i SCHOOL MAY BE CLOSED If thought advisable by the Health Department, the Pokeno school will remain closed for an extra week in order to cope with the outbreak of diphtheria among children there. The chairman was appointed at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board to confer with the Department and authorised to take any necessary steps. “If the school is kept closed for a further week, the Health authorities will be able to find the carriers, who may innoculate the others if school assembles next Monday/* said the chairman, Mr. A. Burns.
The Healtlr Department had asked the headmaster of the Pokeno school to assemble the children as usual, the secretary reported. Their throats would be swabbed and they' would then be sent home until the following Wednesday. That this procedure would tend rather to spread the infection than to check it was the view of Mr. Burns. He pointed out that Pokeno is a small distric’t and the children could be treated in their homes without difficulty.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 977, 21 May 1930, Page 1
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