OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER.
AT PORIKUA MENTAL HOSPITAL.
•Mr A. W. Hogg, M,l\, of Masterton, paid a visit a- few days back to tba Porirua Mental Hospital. He fqund that a rather serious outbreak of typhoid fever had occurred at that institution. Three cases (those of two m&n add a. woman) had already ■ended fatally, and nine patients (six men and tluee young women), wereunder treatment. 'jllio medical staff had made a thorough investigation, and were satisfied that the disease had not been communicated by either milk or food. The water from the reservoir was analysed, but no traces of typhoid could bo detected. >- Dr. Jeffreys, the assistant medical officer, is of opinion that it is just possible that there is a patient in the institution who may have previously guttered from the disease, and from whom the germs may be communicated. The only other theory is that the water has in some way been contaminated. Steps will be taken to protect the water-shed by planting trees and forbidding rabbitters and others from trespassing in its neighbour-, hood.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 4
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178OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 4
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