INFECTIOUS DISEASES
WELLINGTON DISTRICT.
Only fourteen cases of infectious disease* wore reported in Wellington during the week ended noon yesteruay. In tho .provious week tho totel number of notifications was 32;
Hospital. districts which reported cases of infections diseases last week were: Waipawa : Scuriet fever, 2; * diphtheria, 2. j?almerston NtoUi: Ophthalmia neonatorum, 1. Wellington : Diphtheria 2; pneumonic influenza, 1. Wairsurapa: Diphtheria, 3. Nelson: Diphtheria, 3. The lolkwing table gives a comparison between the number "of. notifications of each, disease during the past week and the previous week respectively: — Last Previous week. week. Scarlet fever 2 3 ISnterc fever 0 0 ■Diphtheria _ '.......... 10 _ 14 Tuberculosis .; 0 5 Infantile paralysis ... 0 4 Erysipelas 0 . 0 Ophthalmia _.. 1 /I Lethargio encephalitis 0 1 Influenza.' 1 1 Pneumonia 0 2 Chicken-pox 0 1 Totals 14 32 . Of six deaths which'occurred in Wellington during the week as the result of infectious disease,' one was caused by pneumonia, --.four were due to pulmonary tuberculosis, and one was the outcome oi lethargic encephalitis.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 51, 1 March 1921, Page 8
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166INFECTIOUS DISEASES Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 51, 1 March 1921, Page 8
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