INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 January 1925, Page 6

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

LAST YEAR’S CASES.

The following table gives the number of cases of infectious and other notifiable diseases reported during 1924 'in Canterbury and West Coast Health District, the figures for 1923 being given also for the purposes of comparison. In 1924 there were 220 more cases reported than in 1923. Last year, as compared with 1923, there was an increase of 213 cases of scarlet fever: an increase of 190 cases of diphtheria; and an increase of 33 cases ' of acute primary The principal decreases were: Influenza 226, and .tuberculosis 24.' Early in December last year it was announced that the,- Health Department had declared viiiereal disease an infectious disease w.chin the meaning of the Health Act, 1920, but cases are only notifiable under certain conditions. The figures relating to venereal disease in the accompanying table refer only to notifications made in December, 1.924. The cases of infectious and notifi able diseases reported in 1924 and 1923

For the week ended at noon on Monday the infectious and other notifiable diseases reported in the Canterbury and West Coast Health District totalled 42, as follows: —Canterbury : Scarlet fever 22, diphtheria 3, tuberculosis 4, pneumonia 3, puerperal fever 5. West Coast, Diphtheria 3, tuberculosis 2.

are as follow :— 1924. 1923. Scarlet fever 608 395 Diphtheria 554 364 Enteric fever 21 28 Tuberculosis ... i- ... 222 246 Cerebro-spinal fever ... 7 5 Acute Poliomylitis 4 2 Puerperal fever... 61 34 Erysipelas 39 35 Ophthalmia neotatorum 9 4 Influenza (pneumonic, senticaemic, and fulminant) 34 260 Acute primary , pneumonia. .;. 236 203 Lethargic encephalitis 8 16 Trachoma 1 0 Hydatids 14 13 Tetanus ' 3 2 Food poisoning 5 1 Gonorrhea 1 0 Sepsis following abortion 5 0 Antrylostomiasis 1 0 Phosphorus poisoning 1 0 Lead poisoning 2 0 Eclampsia 14 5 Fulminant influenza ... 0 14 Pediculosis 0 3 Totals 1850 1630