DIPHTHERIA-HOW IT MAY BE AVOIDED.
Diphtheria is usually contracted when the child has a cold. The cold prepares | the" child's system for the reception of ' germs. AVhen there are cases of diphtheria in the neighborhood children that have colds should be kept at home and off the street until recovered. Give them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and they will not have to remain at home long. It also cleans out the culture beds, which form in a chftd's throat when it has a cold, and minimises the risk of contracting infectious diseases. South Taranaki folk, after \jisiting Hie Mokau district always have an interesting story to tell, and the latest is related by a contributor to the Hawera Star, who "polishes off" the prohibited area' in these terms:—"lt is probably well known that the country north of Urenui comes within 1 the prohibited area of the King Country, and that no liquor licenses are there allowed. It is a byword through there, however, that the only thing that is really prohibited is "prohibition," and even on a casual trip one sees ample evideneos of the enormous quantities of liquor that must be consumed. Whisky drinking goes on ' quite openly, and eases of "empty returns" may he seen at the townships. ! Apparently liquor may be taken .in j bulk, and consequently is consumed in ' bulk, with the result'that there is far more outright drunkenness in these sgmall settlements than Is ordinarily met with in well-conducted licensed areas. It seems quite evident that so long as liquor is allowed by law to go Into those, areas, so long wili tho present undesir- ' able condition of thing* last. Either there should be notliqlwr at all, or, if there is to be liquor, it should be under proper control." '
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1917, Page 8
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336Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1917, Page 8
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