INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 12

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

The Department of Health has received the following notifications of cases of iafectious diseases in the hospital districts of the Wellington Health District for the week ended yesterday, the figures for the previous week being given in parentheses:—

-. WaTDganui-Horowbenua: Scarlet fever, 17 (7); diphtheria, 10 (1); pneumonia, 1 (1); tuberculosis, 2 (0). ■ Wabarapa-East Cape: Scarlet fever, 7 (9); diphtheria, 7.(9); erysipelas, I (1); pneumonia, 3 (1); enteric fever, 1 (0); tuberculosis, 4 (0); puerperal fever, 1 (0). Central Wellington: Scarlet fever, 14 (13); diphtheria, 5 (5); tuberculosis, 1 (0); erysipelas, 1 (2); pneumonia, 1 (2); puerperal fever,' 1 (2); ophthalmia neonatorum, 1 (0); cerebro spinal meningitis, 1 (0). Nelson-Marlborough: Pneumonia, 1 (0); diphtheria, 0 (1); puerperal fever, 0 (1).

On a Tecent evening a motor-car, when being driven round Evans Bay, went over a bank near the Patent Slip into the water. It is understood that the driver swerved to avoid hitting a dog, but the car skidded on the bitumen, left the road, and turned over in about 3ft of water. The ear was got oil to the road again, and towed back to town... The driver was uninjured,.

Canon Ackerley,- ot .Mjtton,'Clitherqe; (England), who'has.been appointed official; ale-tester, for that district, may well Hope to be excused one portion of the duties of his new' office!" J In*, the eighteenth century, when the ale-tester was an important and; well-paid official, his chief function was tb detect the adulteration of liquor* by the undue addition >of sugar or treacle. To this end he wore a pair of stout leather breeches, and his method of testing was, to pour a sample of ale on *'< wooden bench, git on it'for a time, then rise. If his nether garments stuck fast to the bench then he declared the ale impure, . "'.'-■