INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Forty cases of infectious disease were notified to the Wellington district office of the Health Department during the week ended yesterday, and three deaths were reported, two from the Wairarapa-Hawke's Bay area and one from central Wellington, the causes being,meningitis, septic abortion, and tuberculosis respectively. Twelve cases, including one each of scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, two of erysipelas, and seven of poliomyelitis, were reported in the Wanganui-Horowhenua district. 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 scarlet 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, and one each of tuberculosis and poliomyelitis.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 17
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