PUBLIC HEALTH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 210, 5 September 1922, Page 4

PUBLIC HEALTH.

IN SATISFACTORY POSITION. DECREASE IN NOTIFICATIONS. BOTH EUROPEAN AND NATIVE. Commenting on the number of notifications received by the Auckland Health Office, Dr. J. Boyd remarked yesterday that there had been a considerable decrease in the number reported during the past few weeks particularly reaard" I ing diphtheria and enteric. "He "considered the position particularly satisfactory, and that the general health: of the ?)ty was very good for this time of v«ar. The absence of outbreaks of an/ disease during the last month or so was -'mphasised by Dr. Buck, the Director of i Native Hygiene, who also commented j upon the small number of infectious' ■ases reported among the native* of late '< He admitted that there had-not rwen an y arge pathenngs for some considerable time, but he believed that with the an- i proachmg elections there would be a I lumber. The Department always took inrpie precautions, however, in that trouto*" 1 ' and he d ' d DOt "- n * ici P ate any Seventy-om- cases of diphtheria were reported to the Auckland office last »onth. of which 38 «ere in the country nJ? V 7' a - nd 10 in the s « b «r^.! rhere i s only a slight decrease over the ; wevro " s m ""th, when the cases niim Wed 00 'In June the diphtheria notiT ation ß totalled US. Other notifications luring Auguet wvre: .s carlet f j* Wn, : j(i , and