SCARLET FEVER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 9, 5 July 1911, Page 5

SCARLET FEVER.

EPIDEMIC IX CANTERBURY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchureh, Tuesday. 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 he 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 nature, states the chairman of the hospital committee, and, 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 lias been exceeded several times this season, the majority of the cases being scarlet fever. There was no use shutting one's eyes to the fact 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 foitv-five. The maximum was reached three or four weeks ago with forty-nine cases.