AUCKLAND HEALTH STATISTICS.
i COBKJSPOHDBOTi) : ~ , Auckland, September 5. •The"health statistics compiled by the District;, Health Officer.-for this district, havo never been so favourable as at the present, time, only ~-31 cases of infectious disease having. been notified for Greater Auckland during'tho'mohtli jiisfc closed. It is gratifying to learn that during that period there were only ' two : cases ; of typhoid fovcr reportetjv, : After -tho introduction of drainage this .diseaso should .be stamped out in Auckland;, or sporadic;.cases, whero it might oc-cur,-.''should 'bo. easily kept iindor control. '. The figures for Auckland city aro:—Enteric (typhoid),., two, cases ; scarlet fover, two; diphtheria, threo; tuberculosis, six; blodd'. poisoning,.:two; total, 15. Tho total numjj'ei; of. ca,ses..for Greater Aucklaiid is 69. 'i'he 'district health officer has. returned from a visit, tq.the',King Country, whero ho. wont to inquire the results of the sanitary\,crusado.,carried out by tho Department' there the year.. Dr. Purdy, lia'd' 'tliii gratifying experience of finding,that tho health, _of \-tho . .district, is excellent at ; prpsgrtt:'.';
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 295, 7 September 1908, Page 4
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