A FORTUNATE YEAR
Health of Community DISEASE ON DECREASE Incidence of Influenza “The past year has been a fortunate one in its comparative freedom from infectious disease in New Zealand, said Dr. T. McKibbin, Director of Public Hygiene of the Department of Health, yesterday. “For some time past,” he said, tne figures have shown a tendency toward reduction, a condition which we hope will continue permanent. In quite a few instances there is a reason to believe that such a condition will become permanent if the people live up to a certain hygienic standard. The modern demands for good water supplies, sound drainage, good food, and plenty of fresh air and sunshine are factors likely to bring about permanency iu these satisfactory returns.” Dr. McKibbin said that the total number of cases of notifiable diseases for 1932 in the Dominion was 3685, as compared with 5013 in 1931. Tlie chief diseases of the notifiable
order were as follow: — 1932. 1931. Scarlet fever 829 1304 802 1327 247 Tnflnpnzn .......... 24 r PvphojrJ 1S5 101 Tuberculosis 912 1109 Puerperal fever 92 100 Ahortjons ... 136 133 Totflijns 17 Hydfifirtg .......... 59 Infantile paralysis ... 25 148
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 6
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191A FORTUNATE YEAR Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 6
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