NOTIFIABLE DISEASES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29800, 17 April 1962, Page 18

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES

Four Hydatids Cases Four cases of hydatids and four of infective hepatitis were among 14 cases of notifiable diseases reported in the Christchurch health district last week. The hydatids patients included a nine-year-old girl from Cashmere. Others were an elderly woman from Christchurch city, a female of unspecified age. also from the city, and a woman of 44 from Rangiora borough. Inspectors’ reports on most of these are not yet complete. Among the infective hepatitis cases was a nine-year-old girl from Bumham. The District Medical Officer of Health (Dr. L. F. Jepson) laid yesterday that fewer cases were being reported from Burnham than previously, and that the spread seemed to be still from family to family through the children. The other three cases of infective hepatitis were all in Christchurch city A farmer from Coutts Island was reported with leptospirosis, almost certainly ought from infected cattle' A Christchurch baby had Sorrne-type bacillary dysentery. Other cases reported were one each of ophthalmia neonatorum (an eye disease of the newborn) arid malaria, the malaria sufferer being a returned soldier from Malava. now at Bumham There were two cases of tuberculosis. In the Timaru health district, one case of pulmonarv tuberculosis was notified during the week.