INFECTIOUS DISEASES
For the week ended yesterday, 32 cases of infectious disease and five deaths (three from tuberculosis, one from influenza, and one from enteric fever, paratyphoid), were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department. In the Wanganui-Horo-whenua area two cases of diphtheria and two of tuberculosis were reported; in Wairarapa-Hawke's Bay, seven cases of scarlet fever, one of diphtheria, one of influenza, and one of enteric fever, paratyphoid; in central Wellington, five cases of scarlet fever, three of diphtheria, seven of tuberculosis, and two of erysipelas; and ir, Nelson-Marlborough. one of scarlet fever. Although the above figures may appear to be high, it was reported (hat several of the cases of tuberculosis were old ones that had been re listed. . • i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 7
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124INFECTIOUS DISEASES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 7
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