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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1915, Page 12

Tn the same issue of the British Medical Journal there is an article by Dr. J. A. Arkwright, in which the following statements occur: It is almost universally accepted that doctors ami hospital nurses .seldom contract the disease. These and similar facts which have been observed in many epidemies are. evidence against the spread of the disease being usually due to direct infection from one patient to another. In fact, the direct coimnunieahility of the disease has been called in question by some epidemiologists. The cause of the rise of an epidemic is not explained -by the discovery of carriers, though epidemics may be transported from place to place by their means. The seasonal prevalence of eorebro-: pharyngeal affections. This corresponds in England with winter and in some other countries with the season of excessive dust, which has been regarded by some observers as the cause of epidemics of meningitis in parts of India, and, at any rate as a contributing cause, *in other hot countries, ~ '