JUNE HEALTH REPORT

Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 4

JUNE HEALTH REPORT

SCARLET FEYER DEGREASING-, ESPECIALLY IE DUNEDIN, DIPHTHERIA CASES INC.MEASED. SOUTHLAND STILL THE CENTRE. By tho courtesy oi Dr. O'Sullivan (health officer), we ere enabled to give some particulars as to the conditions in the Otago and Southland Hospital District over which ho has control. Tho total number of notifications of infections diseasss within tho Otago and. Southland Hospital District dining tho month of June was £OS, tho same number as for May. Scarlet fever notifications reached the total of 78, a decrease of 21 as compared with May. In and about Dunedin there .arc 49 of these scarlet fever eases, but it is satisfactory to note tha appreciable decrease bare, for there were 73 such cases in and about Dunedin in May. In the Southland Hospital District there wore If) scarlet fever notifications. seven in Wo.daki. two in Vincent, and one in tbs Wallace district. “ The number of scarlet fever cases, t’nouoh tower than in May. is still high.” added Dr. O’Sullivan, “and this is duf largely to the fuel, that numerous cases are of mild iyp-a. Thi4 may sound lilc-c a paradox, but the exp!,-,nation is simple A child feels ’!! one -day, a rash appears next dav. and it Jis-vmcwTs within AS hours. The tv dp being of such a mild nft tur». the tnreufc* do not identify it ",e acarlrt fever, «o medical advice is net sought, and the child is sent back to school on-:! allowd to piny with its mates, and when the peeling nets in. three weeks Intor. the child spreads infection wholesale” Tho diphtheria notifications for Juno over who whole Oiaoo and Southland Hospital. .District number 95. as against 78 in May, .; u>■•!!,ti. civ-utor number of Icyx; r-c-es are from tho .‘'out')land district. '.v Iwo r-rera were “5 notifications, «,* aacnst ;>7 for liny. The Dunoclin Hospital District had 11. diphtheria notification.-!. W.vt-Vi 5. and WVibco 4. (fommemriu - on tea obMrnato nrevalence of this d->; in Wuthlaixl. Dr. O’Sullivan sacs th-c in Amorim, when an epidemic ’ivec.h- out, thov strai.-ihlv.-av scud ba.c'criobhst-i to i.k> Ikoo. and laboratory for the work Tha Eon. G/W. Bussed In,-, a -vhemn on tho varna lines for ,\ew tfi-aoin. i. wh'wcbv science simhuhs will hj" trnhrnd si badprioJogists and made av;mole for duly in snii-centres Fiivcrcrrudi, Omnarn. Timnru. O isborno, nt-c—-to ..to routing bastteriolovical work, snc-i />;; tbrn-J, ev;iip;r:-finn. ft.',, and it is .hoped i net s;nd- scorna will help largely to prevent the spread of infectious d i senses. TNi t*.ho’.’cii]ash; nritir.c-iliuim for .Tunc nun-oGr-■] eg, an ir'cr-ca-n :, f 5 a - com - par'd with Way. 7’W front me im'it.v of there_ cams w< r . : . in ihe trtaip ‘Hospital ,1 Vo f ;.e r-;'!”g 24 OS Com paIP • 1 v ’ l *I ’. 1.3 in '.: ay. I,a ihh. rr.pnr.clioa it is to he tfr.fr-:lsy>! fev-’d of ill:- rare;-; ;j.rc <!X the ym-ei- oKhW-’t t-.-ne. Tho ixaficmi. does nk, repmmfig. I.W mr.lady, mid docs cot rn •<{,•..'•-( ace-p,-. erriv. r.nd iT):■ ,rop •.-■ : -o o' e. 1 - mtiAJ the rn.au rwi-': Oc-ore the WEvv docie,., f cr f ;j, o iiavv rjhywr'-d i ; n ~_ 1 ■■’•■'p owe. .a; O’!'”:,' fever- occui-rod in Dllif.Siin. i I ! .e'er ■ Tog, I ’ If a m either ease.