TYPHOID OUTBREAK AT KAPONGA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8136, 16 June 1906, Page 2

TYPHOID OUTBREAK AT KAPONGA.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib, —My attention has been called to a paragraph in yesterday's News regarding tho cases of typhoid fever occuring in Kaponga. I would be greatly obliged if you would publish the following facts, in order to remove the ill effects of the exaggerated re. ports circulated by your contemporary, the " Waimate Witness," from whom you quote. There are at present fottr cases of typhoid fever in Hawera Hospital, sent from Kaponga, all mem. bers of one family (a mother and three children). Tho Health Department was at once notified, and, in addition, a special request was made for a visit from the District Health Officer. On his coming horo he was given full details, and all facilities for enquiring into the matter, and I understand the Department will now insist upon expensive alterations to the building, ta which nearly every case arising within the past three years can bo traced. These alterations, I belicvo, will shortly be carried out. I would ask you to give this full publicity, to show that, whatever may have been done on- former occasions, every effort is now being made to stamp out the infection, ofEorts which I feel sure will bo entirely successful.—l am, etc., D. W. Maclagan,

M.8., M.B.C.P.E.

Kaponga, 14th June, 1906. [We are glad to have this assurance. It is not before time that -ometliing was done to put Kaponga uu a better health footing. In any com.nunity, tho health of the people shiuld be placed before every other consideration, —Ed.]