OTAGO PUBLIC HEALTH

Evening Star, Issue 17086, 3 July 1919, Page 6

OTAGO PUBLIC HEALTH

DECREASE IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES. A CHEEPING REPORT. The wnort for tho month of Jun« issued by Dr Hughes, District Health Ollicer for (Itago a-'-Kl Southland, i; of ia reassuring nature. Tho total number ot cases of infectious diseases rwtiiled in June was 166, a decrease of 67 ay compared with tho number in May. This decrease is mainly due to a drop in the iiiiniW of diphtheria cmcs in the Waitaki, Ota go, and Southknd hospital districts. Scarlet fever cases number 75, an increase of 9 for the month, but a decrease of 3 as compared with -Ivrie (of last year. There were 43 notifications in the Ota go hospital district, against 47 la-?t month. In Dunod : n and suburbs the number was 35, a.«ainst. 41 in Bfcy. These cai-es were scattered throughout, tho City and suburbs, but in Punodiu South andißosiyn the [wilinn is hhk.li improved. The total notifications-of diphtheria wore 65, against 108 in BUy. "Ilio decrease of 45 is C chieflv duo to f-li-o decneaso in tho Otago hnspi'tal district, the number being 28, as .against 73 in Blay. • There were 22 cases in- Dunedin fend suburbs, .as compared with 58 in Blay. Tho number of swabs taken in June for bacteriological examination was 193, inclndin- 74 at Anderson Bay, 39 at Kaikorai School, and 73 at Lumsdcn. Amongst the. other disease*, lethargic. encvphalitis claims s—viz., one- each at Roslyn, Sencliff, Kaitangata, Longbusii, and Inrercargi.U.