TYPHOID IN AUCKLAND. REPORT FROM HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF. Auckland, March 27.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 4

TYPHOID IN AUCKLAND. REPORT FROM HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF. Auckland, March 27.

The question of typhoid lover in Auckland came up for eonsideiation at the meeting' ot tho Charitable Aid Boaid last evening, when the following icpurl. was read from the Ho.spit.al medical .stall : - j " Auckland Hospital, March 26th, 1888. Sir, --Tho medu al oflicoi.-> attached to ttie AueUland Ccnei.d ilo.spital do no 10 dneet tlu- atteut on of the 11 os ital and Chantable Aid Boaid to the ku^e number ot typhoid Itmt patients admitted thi.s.s.ason \o tin; Hospital w.utls As Uk; member- of the J>ouid aie alteady aware, the numbei.s amount to neaily bO per cent. o\ei tho-o leeoidcd last \e'U. The medical ofheeis are ol opinion I ii.it tho pi ( -entoutbieakn mainly due to one oi nu>»o of the. iollowini; cau'-es : --(1) Imperfect diaina^c and tsanitaiv ar langeinents ; (2) contamination of an and water; (3; di.su^.iidot the him[)lH. lawot health by the people themseh*-. Jtiuijiently nec-crsaiy that c\ih* Mich a- these be attended lo at once. —(.Signed) 10. (!. Lici.k Eimi\, B. (J. Ki'vw,, 10 1). M \rkuxvn, lionoiaiy visiting physicians- to the Auckland Hospital " Tin- following nu-moianda weie added to theiepoit • Uis. Ei-on and Bealr would lfconuneiid the m.-ULulion ot a piovmei.d Bo id ot H»a th, euiMftin<i: of one oi moie i«eienti-t>- luddin^ »ptcial quahtiuUious m I üblie he.ilth and t'li^nifCiiun:, the said Bo.iid to have lull |i<wuh in a 1 nuittei^ pi i tainini; to the health o the ( lty and pio\ iiiu\ L)i Mackcllai i-> ot opinion that the; Hospital Boaid s.,ould hi^tconKr with tho City (Jounul as to the elheiency ot the pie-uit s^ -tern ot .sanitaiy inspti-tiou and I'ontiol, iind it- possible modilieations oi attentions Di. ljell icpoiti-d: - - Typhoid fe\er patients ate "-till eonnnp; in. 'lhiuc new c atcs weie adnutttd to-day— two h male-> '«ud one male, \esteiday one male \\a-> ailnntted. The total number it piesent ututei tteatment is 23 males and 12 fern Je^ Mi M«t)s mo\cw, "That the honoi.uy phj mci. uk-1 he thanked for then lepott, and th.it they be uiwtul toeoniei with the com nut tec appointed by the City Council to coiwdn the subject " l>i. Be.dc, « ho w.i- pundit, acquiesced in the ii'solution, and it. was also coneumd in li) Dis. Maekellar and Er.-on, who weie pit sent a a Mibscquetit htaue ot the meeting. Di. Be. lie -aid then. v. as no que-tion that then; had bten an mcica-e in typhoid I thih \ear, and hu thought the muea-e could not be le-* than iitty ])er eont It ua- al-o patent tliat the disca-e would continue to liuie.ise unless our sanitaiy ai lanjiements ulic lookt d after. Next, year tho inetease would piobahly be about 35 per cent, gieatir than it is this year. Mr Conpir -aid he under-tood horn the Sanitaiy lntpeetor that there was a perceptible deciui-e of the dise.w., at the j))esent tune. Mi Nieeol attubuted thi^ to the delude of lain that had fallen. Mi Cooper sum^c-ted tlut they -lioul I asceitam tiom tlie medical H'hetlur The ih-ca-r was not tiaceable in m.iii} ea-e- to the d.iiiufJ he Chaninan -aid Di Iji.on \\a-> of th.it opinion. Mi L'oopei nu'iifioncd a case at Epsom wheie two death* had occmred ftom the di-ea-e, and anothei jx r-on was i-uikum^ badly from u. Thatoutbicak could haidl) be t'aceable to defeetne <l»ainajrc. He al-o icleried to a ( a-e whete a milkman earned hi- nu k lound contwu) to the nisti uetiotib ot the doctoi, who found him siiti<Minq horn tho disea-e. He t\oiituully had to <^o the Hospital, wheie he died Mi At kin lefencd to the filthy condition in winch main p-oplo allowed tlv n piemi-e- to icniam, and -aid the loc.d Bench wa- lo blair.f lot allowing la-es ot tin- kind to be di-nu— cd with a caution. Th< Chaiinivin -aid th-. Bmhli should be compelled to -it within leachot the -in' ll. and then it would appieeiato the etioi tint \ of c oiienci. c lesolution v .h ado})ted.