INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 256, 13 July 1926, Page 3

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

PNEUMONIC INFLUENZA INCREASING PAST WEEK’S RETURN Fifteen cases of pneumonic influenza figure on the infectious''disease notifications to the district health authorities for the week ended yesterday, this being an increase of eight cases on those for the previous seven days. In Centra! Wellington, however, the position remains unchanged, six cases only, the same number as last week, being reported. The bulletin discloses that diphtheria is'less prevalent, there being onlv 31 cases of that disease as against 41 included in the previous list. A detailed statement of the cases reported from the various hospital districts appears below, the figures for the previous seven days being given in parentheses:— Taranaki-Horowhenua: Scarlet fever 3 (3), diphtheria. 14 (12), erysipelas 1 (1) pneumonic influenza 3 (0), puerperal fever 1 (0), septic abortion 1 (0), tuberculosis 0 (1), pneumonia 0 (2) ; total, 23 (19). Wairarapa-East Cape: Scarlet fever 8 (7), diphtheria 4 (IS), tuberculosis 3 (2) pneumonia 4 (3), pneumonic influenza 6 (1), fulminant influenza 0 (I) enteric fever 0 (4) 1 total, 25 (36). Central Wellington: Scarlet fever 15 (3) diphtheria 10 (10), tuberculosis 6 (2h pneumonia 3 (8), pneumonic influenza 6 (6), puerperal fever 1 (1), erysipelas 0 (1) ; total, 41 (31). Nelson-Marlborough: Diphtheria 3 (1); total, 3 (1). Grand totals: 92 (87).