SCARLET FEVER.
INFECTED MILK-NO ONE TO. BLAME. Per Press Association Christchurch, last night. A serious opidemic of scarlet fever is being experienced at St. Albans, a suburb of Christchurch, at present. During the last month 75 cases of the disease were reported in Christchurch and suburbs, being an increaso of 23 cases over the returns of July. During the first five or six days of the present month 38 additional cases have been reported, mostly from St. Albans. The epidemic there was accidentally oaused by infected milk, no one apparently being to blame in the matter. The cases were all infected about the same day, and the disease appeared about the same time. All the original St. Albans cases have now been isolated, and as no fresh cases have been notified for two or three days the Distriot Health Officer (Dr. Finch) hopes the epidemic has practically ceased. The infeotious diseases hospital at Bottle Lake is full. Local medical men, interviewed, think a temporary hospital should be erected. One dootor states the present system of isolating a mere proportion of patients at Bottle Lake is a certain expense to the community, and useless to present the spread of the epidemic.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 991, 10 September 1903, Page 3
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200SCARLET FEVER. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 991, 10 September 1903, Page 3
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