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the disease among school children there.
With support from the Taupo County Council,
they intend pushing for hot-water hand-washing
Enrolments facilities in schools. And the South Auckland branch
Feb-04 1969 P AINSWORTH Karen of the Parent Teacher Association recently formulated
Feb-04 1969 P ALLEN Gregory Dale a remit on the subject to be presented at its
Jun-11 1969 P ANDREWS Acushla Raewyn
national conference in Wellington in August.
Dec-03 1969 S2 ANDREWS Acushla Raewyn The federation would take up the matter of hepatitis
Mar-31 1969 P DARKE Carol Vivien with the Government departments concerned., said a
Sep-22 1969 P DOBSON Stuart Andrew
spokesman, Mr W A Rush.
Feb-04 1969 P DUNSTAN Joseph Arthur But the general manager of the South Auckland
Apr-05 1969 P GREEN Terrence Dale John Education Board, Mr K C M Cockerill, said in
Sep-08 1969 P HARPER Cheryl jean answer that the incidence of hepatitis in some schools
Dec-01 1969 P HIRIAKI Joseph Wiari could not be blamed on the lack of hot-water
Nov-19 1969 P HOETA Tania Maxine hand-washing facilities. He said the matter of
Mar-12 1969 P HUNT Craig Thomas hepatitis had been fully discussed with Dr
Jun-05 1969 P JANSEN Marinus Robert
Dawson, Hamilton District Medical Officer of Health.
Nov-10 1969 P JANSEN Marinus Robert The disease could be traced to any number of
Feb-04 1969 P1 KATIPA Steven John causes, said Mr Cockerill, but a circular had been sent
Oct-28 1969 P MANAIA Michael Thomas to all teachers asking them to pay strict attention to
Apr-30 1969 P McDONALD Phillip John
children’s hand-washing.
Feb-04 1969 P PLAS Richard William Soap was supplied in all schools, and most had
Nov-24 1969 P POWELL Ernest Robert towels supplied either by individual children, or
Apr-28 1969 P RANGI Warren Wiremu Rangiorua paper towels supplied by school committees.
Feb-04 1969 P RETI Susan Amelia Angela
Mar-24 1969 P ROSS Daren Colin
Jun-09 1969 P SHARP Lee-Ann February
Jun-09 1969 P SHARP Tony Rex The school opened with a full staff, the same as for 1968,
Mar-24 1969 P SLEE Kevin Paul with the exception that Miss Sheryl Reid replaced Miss
Feb-04 1969 P SOOLE Brenda Michelle Courtney who moved to Putaruru.
Feb-04 1969 P SYME Andrea The initial roll was 199.
Feb-04 1969 P TAUROA Ron Rangiwhare Mr L Palmer, Inspector for the area, visited.
Dec-03 1969 P TISCHENDORF Yasmin Gertrud In glorious sunshine (unusual for a Kimihia function) the
Feb-04 1969 P TURTON Robyn Lee annual swimming sports was run in the Domain baths.
Jun-10 1969 P UNU Kingi Teariki The improved standards of performance shown proved
Jun-10 1969 P UNU Matatua the value of having our own pool. Matai won the
Oct-28 1969 P WATENE Elaine Harriet
swimming competition.
Feb-04 1969 S4 WOODS Ruth Marian
Hepatitis Outbreak at April
An interesting display and films from the BP oil
company.
Kimihia School A biennial householders’ meeting was held to elect a new
The Kimihia School, near school committee. Chairman M Gerrand, Secretary-
Treasurer E Jones, Committee Mrs A Fletcher, Messrs T
Huntly, may be forced to close
due to a bad outbreak of Hunt, R Gill, I Tapp and B Fransham.
infectious hepatitis. The Annual General Meeting of the PTA elected the
A large number of the school’s following executive officers: R Forrest (Chairman) and
roll of 204 has already been Mrs R Gill (Secretary-Treasurer).
affected, together with a number
May
of adults from the area.
Local residents claim the The children ran their ‘Penny Arcade’ and cleared $27 in
cause of the disease at Kimihia is the hour.
a number of defective sewers serving several new The second term started with a full staff but a
homes near the school. dramatically decimated roll of pupils, due to a virulent
Huntly has its own sewerage scheme, but this outbreak of Hepatitis in the district. As this has been
area of Kimihia has not yet been connected. raging for some months now one wonders why the Health
The headmaster of Kimihia School, Mr J Lloyd, Department hasn’t taken some measure to isolate the
said today that reliable figures of the number of source.
pupils affected could not be accurately assessed,
but they were considerable.
Mr Lloyd said a health inspector was due to make . .
an inspection of the area tomorrow, and he would ask Nine Pupils Sick
the inspector if the school should be closed as a Nine cases of infectious hepatitis had been
safeguard. officially notified by pupils attending Kimihia
The outbreak at Kimihia is only one in the Waikato- School, said the Hamilton medical officer of
King Country and he is concerned at the spread of
