Blackwater
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Four Recent Cases at Yodda, Papua
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Nov. 1.
* 1 1 HE fourth case of blackwater fever from the Yodda, this year, was brought over by plane on October 14 and admitted to the European Hospital.
On this occasion, the patient is a well known member of the magisterial service, Mr. R. W. Faithorn, A.R.M., stationed at Kokoda. Though Mr. Faithorn’s condi tion was considered serious for the first two or three days after admittance, he has now sufficiently recovered to be well out of danger.
Mr. H. T. Kienzle, who was admitted to hospital on September 30 from the Yodda Goldfields, suffering also from blackwater, has made a good recovery and will shortly resume duty.
These four cases, following hard upon one another in the one district, have given rise to some anxiety. In the case of Mr.
E. C. Carr, the well known botanist of the British Museum, the disease in June proved fatal.
Residents in the Yodda district are for tunate in being able to call on the New Guinea aerial services in cases of urgency to transport them immediately over the ranges to Port Moresby, where medical at tention gives them every chance of re covery.