INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 3

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

District Notifications

A further decrease in the number of cases of infectious. disease in the Wellington health district is shown in the bulletin for the past week. The Central Wellington total shrunk from 17 the preceding week to 12, the decreases including scarlet fever from four to two, and diphtheria from five to two. Tuberculosis, on the other hand, increased from two cases to four. Of the other districts, Nelson-Marlborough is able to show a clean sheet for the week. Detailed returns are as follow, the previous week’s totals being given in parentheses:— , Wanganui-Horowhenua: ■ Erysipelas, 0 (d) ; puerperal fever, 0 (1) ; eclampsia,. 0 (1) ; scarlet fever, 1 (1) ; diphtheria, 1 (0); tuberculosis, 3 (1) ; pneumonia, 1 (0) ; total, 6 (5). Wairarapa-Ha wire’s Bay: Enteric fever, 0 (1) ; erysipelas, 0 (1) ; hydatids. 0 (1) ; scarlet fever, < 2 (1) ; pneumonia, 1 (0) ; total. 3 (4). > Central Wellington: Puerperal fever, 0 (1); scarlet fever, 2 (4); diphtheria, 2 (5) ; tuberculosis. '4 (2) ; pneumonia, 1 (4); erysipelas. 1 (1); septic abortion, 1 (0) ; ophthalmia neonatorum, 1 (0) ; total, 12 (17). Nelson-Marlborough $ Scarlet fever, 0 (1); tuberculosis, 0 (1); eclampsia, 0 (1); total, 0 (3). Grand total, 21 (29).