THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
INSANITARY SURROUNDINGS
[Special to “Times.”]
WELLINGTON, Oct. 20. One would' think that a Health Department would do its work amidst sanitary surroundings. Such, however, is not the case in regard - to the New Zealand-Department of Health. The building in which the officers work was erected many years ago as the residence for the curator of the Colonial Museum. Some parts of the outer walls have rotted away and new boards have been inserted, but it is possible still to easily thrust a finger through spots which have been painted over. Inside the walls have been repapered, but the .musty smell of disintegration pervades the rooms. The bacteriological work (says the “Post”) is done under specially, discomfiting conditions, both from the point of view of the ana.lyists and the general public.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2328, 22 October 1908, Page 6
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133THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2328, 22 October 1908, Page 6
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