{"id":246562,"date":"2005-02-14T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/lack-of-water-in-nassau-a-threat-to-public-health"},"modified":"2005-02-14T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T16:39:42","slug":"lack-of-water-in-nassau-a-threat-to-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/lack-of-water-in-nassau-a-threat-to-public-health","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Water in Nassau A Threat To Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Baldwin Carey, Director of Public Health, told The Tribune that hand washing is vital to disease prevention and a shortage of water puts public facilities such as schools and clinics at risk for a rapid spread of infectious diseases. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe Water and Sewerage Corporation has cut down on water supply between 10am to 3pm, the time most students are in school, and overnight from 9pm to 5am. <\/p>\n<p>\nConcerned parents, already shaken from recent reports of a student of H O Nash junior high school contracting tuberculosis, are appealing for an investigation into illnesses that seem to be spreading in the schools of their children. <\/p>\n<p><small>By KILAH ROLLE<br \/>\nTribune Staff Reporter <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critically low water supply in New Providence is a threat to public health, officials claimed yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}