SLIGHT INCREASE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFICATIONS A flight increase is shown in the number of infections diseases notified to the district health authorities for last week as compared with those for the previous week. There is a decrease in the number of scarlet fever cases in the Central Wellington area, but diphtheria and tuberculosis cases have increased.. Scarlet fever is fairly prevalent in the Wanga-nui-Horowhenua area. Details of cases are as follow, those for the previous week biting given in parentheses :— Wanganui-Horbwhenua: Scarlet fever 8 (5) : diphtheria 4 (8) : puerperal fever 0 (11: total. 12 (14). Wairarapa-Hawke’s Bay: Scarlet fever 5 (3) ; puerperal fever 0 (1) :; tetanus 1 (1) : dysentery 1 (2) ; tuberculosis 2 (0) ; pneumonia 1 (0) ; total, 10 (7). Central Wellington: Scarlet fever 1 (9) : diphtheria 9 (3) ; tuberculosis 6 (1) : pneumonia 1 (1) : erysipelas 0 (1); puerperal fever 0 (1): ophthalmia neonatorum 0 (1): total, 17 (17). Nelson-Marlborough: Poliomyelitis 0 (1) ; scarlet fever 4 (0) : total. 4 (1). Grand total. 43 (39).
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 13
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164SLIGHT INCREASE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 13
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