INFECTIOUS DISEASES
For the week ended yesterday, 18 cases of infectious disease and one death (from lethargic encephalitis) were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department. In the Wanganui-Horowhenua area, one case of scarlet fever, one of diphtheria and one of lethargic encephalitis were recorded; in Wairai’apa-Hawke’s Bay, two cases of tuberculosis and one of scarlet fever; in central Wellington, five cases of tuberculosis, two of scarlet fever, two of erysipelas and one of septic abortion; and in Nelson-Marlborough, one case of tuberculosis and one of puerperal fever.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 63, 8 December 1936, Page 15
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