INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
AUGUST RETURNS NORMAL,
August was a normal month as regards the number of cases of infectious diseases reported to the Health Department. The total was 301, compared with 277 in .Tulv.
In the scarlet fever section there was v. increase from 89 in July to 113 last month, and pneumonia with 38 cases howed an increase of 8. Details of the eturns, with those for July in parenthesis, are as follow: Central Auckland, 128 cases (150); South Auckland, S8 (70); North Auckland, 51 (35); ThamesTauranga, 34 (22). Classified according to the diseases the returns were: Scarlet fever, 113 (S9); diphtheria, 53 (55); tuberculosis, 42 (43); cerebro-spinal meningitis, 1 (0); pneumonic influenza, 7 (6); pneumonia, 38 (30); ciisipelas 10 (19); puerperal fever, 16 (12); tetanus, 1 (0); ophthalmia neonartorum, 1 (0); trachoma, 4 (0); dysentery, 5„ (3); enteric fever, 8 (0); exlampsia, 2' (1).
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 209, 4 September 1929, Page 8
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