NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17491, 8 June 1920, Page 4

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.

CASES '.REPORTED IN MAY.

The total number of cases of notifiable diseases reported in the Auckland health district during Mar was 36*75 as compared with 1355 in April, an increase of 2520, which is more than accounted icr by the number of influenza cases reported. These numbered 20, as against 3.121 in April, ui increase of i 71.

I There we:, "ast month 37 cases of scar■let fever, il in the city. 14 in "he I suburbs, ,vtA o%ut in the country districts, a decrees of 15 compared with April. Diphtheria cases totalled 44. of which 1* were in the city, 11 in the suburbs and 19 m the country districts, a decrease cf 24 compared with the preceding month, l.nteric fever cases numbered 14, of when two were in the cjty, four in the suburb, and eight in the country district; - de- ! creaso of four compared with April, Tuberculosis oases totalled 23. seven being in the city, /cur in the suburbs and 12 in the country distri'ls, the April total 11. : Pneumonia showed a decrease of 6, the total number notified being 44, of which 11 were in the city, 10 in the suburbs and 83 in tha country districts. Ten cases of measles were reported as against six in April. Poliomyelitis cases totalled 11 as Eigainst 17 in the preceding mo-nth. There ".".'ere four cases of cerebrospinal (nettingi itis, one each in the city and suburbs and | two in the country districts, as compared with two in March. Erysipelas cases i numbered five, a decrease oi one, and I there was one case in the country districts I of puerperal septicaemia as compared with ! two in April and 21 in March. Four cases o' unclassified septicaemia occurred as agairisl one in April. There were also 21 case* cf chicken-pox, nine in the city, four in the suburbs, and eight in :he country districts, as against none in April