DIPHTHERIA SUSPECTS.
INOREASE IN CHRISTCHURCH. AUTHORITIES TAKE PRECAUTIONS. (By Telegraph—Wren Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, \Vednesday. The number of diphtheria suspects among the nurses and patients at the (IZtn-istchurch public hospital is greater than usual. Precautions have been taken, and 1111 cases positively attected have been removed to Battle Lake hospital. It is understood that concern has been caused by the increase in the number of positive swaths. The actual extent at“ the disease will not in: linuwn. however. til] the tests are Completed. lu\\ur(l,—. the end ut‘ the week. .\ nuin~ her of susherts are marrying the, dis‘ease in its nun—virulent form, \\'hirh ‘nwnns [hut the germ cannot, he [unset] on. Some vi the children are stated in have heen transferred to :1 special ward, amt it is believed the. nurses have horn asked to eurtail \iglts to their friend»
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19903, 4 June 1936, Page 12
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137DIPHTHERIA SUSPECTS. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19903, 4 June 1936, Page 12
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