HEALTH INSPECTOR'S WORK.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14956, 1 May 1914, Page 2

HEALTH INSPECTOR'S WORK.

A review of the work carried out during the year for tho preservation of the health of the district was presented by Mr A. W. Nicol. Chief Inspector. Mr Nicol said there had been a decrease in the number of cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever, and tuberculosis, but the miscellaneous cases had largely increased, mainly due to chickenpox being notifiable, owing to the outbreak of smallpox in the North Jsiand, and also to the outbreak of infantilo paralysis (these also being notifiable). In reference to the latter disease, it was yet too early to state if permanent- cures were to be made, but in every case there were encouraging improvements.

"We have again to report," added the Inspector, "as in previous years, that while our wor khas increased, and we have necessarily had to inconvenience the public a good deal, we have not received one single complaint as to methods adopted, and the way the work is carried out. We still find at times great difficulty in staying a mild epidemic of scarlet fever in small localities, owing to some persons, consciously or unconsciously, hiding the fact that their child had scarlet fever."