MISSING MAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1941, Page 6

MISSING MAN

BODY FOUND IN RESERVOIR. THREE WEEKS IN WATER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ’ INVERCARGILL, October 1. The body of a man aged 50 was discovered late yesterday afternoon in one of the reservoirs at the city waterworks. He had been missing three weeks. Today members of the Invercargill City Council visited the waterworks to inspect the reservoir, which had been drained, and workmen were engaged in giving it a thorough cleaning. A recommendation to the works committee to consider the advisability of fencing the main deep reservoirs was discussed informally. An assurance that the city water supply would not be harmed by the presence of a body in the reservoir for three weeks was given by the professor of pathology at the University of Otago, Dr E. F. D’Ath, in a telephone interview. He said harm could only be caused if the person was suffering from infectious disease and then only if the bacteria, could be water-borne, such as those of typhoid fever. Dead birds were often found in tanks of domestic water services but their presence did not affect the water from the health point of view.