INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 216, 8 June 1926, Page 6

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

A CONSIDERABLE DECREASE BUT DIPHTHERIA STILL PREVALENT The number of cases of infectious disease reported to the district health authorities for the week ended yesterday shows a considerable decrease when compared with the list for the previous week. In place of a grand total of 72 cases there were repotred in the past week 56 cases, showing a decrease of 22.23 per cent. Diphtheria, however, is still prevalent, there being 29 cases on the latest list, only one less than the number reported for the previous week. The details from the various hospital districts' 1 are as follow, the figures for the previous seven days being given in parentheses:— Taranaki-Horowhenua: Scarlet fever, 1 (3) ; diphtheria, 9 (9) ; total, 10. Wairarapa-East Cape: Scarlet fever, 8 (5); diphtheria, 13 (9) ; enteric fever, 1 (7) ; tuberculosis, 1 (2); puerperal fever, 1 (1) ; pneumonic influenza, 1 (0); total, 25 (25). Central Wellington: Scarlet fever, 12 (14) : diphtheria, 7 (12) ; erysipelas, 1 (0); total, 20 (29). Nelson-Marlborough: Scarlet fever, 1 (0); total, 1 (0). Grand total, 56 (72). DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC THREATENED AT THAMES [BY TELEGRAPH.)—PBESS ASSOCIATION. Thames, June 7. An epidemic of diphtheria is threatened by the suspected presence at the Central School of a “carrier.” Eighteen children have been sent to the hospital. The parents generally attribute the outbreak to the many unhealthy open drains and- unsanitary drainage in various parts of the borough.