INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Forty cases of infectious disease were notified during the week ended yesterday to the Wellington district office of the Health Department. Three deaths were reported, two from the Wairarapa-Hawke’s Bay area, caused by meningitis and septic abortion respectively, and one from Central Wellington, caused by tuberculosis. In the 12 cases in the WanganuiHorowhenua area there were one each of scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, seven of poliomyelitis, and two of erysipelas. The Wairarapa-Hawke’s Bay area had seven notifications, four of poliomyelitis and one each of scarlet. fever, meningitis and hydatids. There were five cases each of scarier fever, tuberculosis and poliomyelitis in Central ’Wellington, and one each of erysipelas and ophthalmia neonatorum. In the Nelson-Marlborough area there were two cases of scarlet fever, one of tuberculosis and one of poliomyelitis. Seventeen cases of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) were notified for all areas for the week.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 186, 4 May 1937, Page 11
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