INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 12

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SLIGHT LOCAL INCREASE An increase in diphtheria and scarlet lever notifications in the Wellington district. is reported by the district health authorities. for the week ended yesterday. In the Wanganui-Horowhenua area there has been a decrease of 50 per cent, in notifiable disease in the previous week, due largely to a falling off in diphtheria eases. Following are the detailed figures, those for the previous week being given in parentheses:— Wanganui-Horowhenua: Scarlet fever, 4 (12) ; diphtheria, 0 (2) ; tuberculosis, 1 (1); pneumonia, 3 (1) ; poliomyelitis, 0 (1); total, 8 (16). Wairarapa-Hawke’s Bay: Scarlet fever, 6 (7) ; diphtheria, 3 (3) ; tuberculosis. 5 (1) ; puerperal fever, 0 (1); leprosy, 0 (1) ; eclampsia, J (0) ; total, 15 (13). Central Wellington: Scarlet fever, 12 !7) ; diphtheria, 16 (12) ; pneumonia, 1 4); tuberculosis, 2 (1); puerperal fever, 0 (1) ; pneumonic influenza, 1 (0); erysipelas. 1 (0); trachoma, 0 (1) ; total. 33 (23). Nelson-Marlborough: Scarlet fever, 1 (0) : septic abortion, 1 (0) ; diphtheria, 0 (1) ; total, 2 (1). Grand Fotal, 58 (55).