INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18211, 3 October 1922, Page 6

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

DECREASED NOTIFICATIONS.

FIGURES FOR SEPTEMBERS

A further decrease in the monthly notifications to the medical officer of health afi Auckland, Dr. T. J. Hughes, was recorded during September, there being only 188 cases reported, compared with 195 in August. Diphtheria continues to be the most prevalent infectious disease, though the number of eas.es notified shows a considerable decrease when compared with last month, the totals being 59 and 71 respectively. Of these cases 24 occurred in the city and suburbs, and the remainder in the country districts. Scarlet fever casts show an increase of 10, the total being 36, of which 20 occurred in the city and suburbs. There were II cases of typhoid fever in August, but none in September. Notifications of pneumonia last month totalled 23, or 11 less than in the previous month, 14 cases coming from the «ity aid suburbs. Pneumonic influenza cases increased in September from three to 11, five coming from the city and suburbs Erysipelas accounted for nine of the notifies-' tions last month, cerebro spinal meningitis for two, and puerperal fever for live. One case of diphtheria at the Thame? wfis notified to the Health Department yesterday. Diphtheria notifications last week numbered 14, this being a decrease as compared with the previous week'* figures. There were three cases in tins cfty, four in the suburbs, and seven in the country districts.

DIPHTHERIA AT PAPATOKTQ'fI.

NO NEW CASES REPORTED. The Papatoetoe public school w&j reopened yesterday morning, after having been thoroughly fumigated during fche time it was closed on account of an outbreak of diphtheria. No fresh cases were found when the children were examined by the health officers, and it is officially stated that there is now no cause for alarm.