SCARLET FEVER

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 54, Issue 32621, 14 September 1945, Page 5

SCARLET FEVER

NO EARLY CESSATION EPIDEMIC IN DISTRICT REPORT TO HOSPITAL BOARD Reports on activities during the month of August at the various institutions under the board’s control were tabled as under at the September meeting of the Thames Hospital Board: — Coromandel Hospital.—Number of patients in wards at last return, 5 males, 9 females; admitted, 1 male, 9 females; deaths, 1. male, 3 females; discharged; 4 males, 7 females-; remaining, 1 male, 8 females; out-pat-ients, 21 males, 27 females; births, 2 males, 1 female; operations, 4 males, 5 females.

Mercury Bay Hospital.—'Number of patients in wards at last return l , 2 females, 2 males'; admitted, 7 females, 1 male; discharged, 2 males, 1 female; remaining, 7 females, 2 males; outpatients, 40' females, 32 males. Paeroa Hospital.—Number of patients in wards at last return, 2 males,

8 females; admitted, 21 females; discharged, 2 males, 20 1 females; remaining, 9 females; operations, 1 female; confinements 16. Waihi Hospital.—Number of patients in wards at last return, 17 males, 19' females; admitted 1 , 26- males, 29 females-; deaths, 3 males; discharged, 26 males, 2'B females; remaining, 17 males, 20 females; out-patients, 13 males, 13 females; attendances, 19 males, 33 females-; operations, 8 males, 2® females. Thames Hospital.—Number of patients in wards at last return, 50 males, 52 females; admitted, 57 males 1 , 76 females; deaths, 2 males, 3 females; discharged, 52 males, 65 females; remaining, 5'3 males, 60 females; outpatients, 12® males-, 84 females; attendances, 23'5 males', 135 females; operations, 28 males, 20 fem-ales. “There are still 14 scarlet fever patients in the Thames Hospital and it appears that any early and permanent cessation of the epidemic is unlikely,” reported the resident surgeon, Dr. E. Gifford. 'Produce from the board’s farm included 2'53 gallons of milk, 17 dozen eggs and 1 34 dozen lemons.