INFECTIOUS DISEASES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10545, 23 March 1920, Page 5

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

WELLINGTON DISTRICT INFLUENZA PREVALENT, BUT OF MILD TYPE. The official bulletin shows that the following infectious diseases were notified ia tho Wellington Hospital District during the v.eoK eudmg noon on Monday, March 22nd; — Scarlet lever, H —waipawa 1, Stratford 2. Dipntheria, 21—Waipawa 2, Taranaki 1, Swattord 2, .Hawera 1, AA auganui 3, Palmer ton North 2, Avellington 2, Nelson 11. Tuberculosis, 7 —Waipawa 1, .Taranaki 2, Wanganui 2, Wellington 2. Influenza, 217 (particulars below;. Pneumonia, 4 —Wanganui 2, Palmerston North 1, AA T elling-ton X. Measles, 4—-Taranaki 1, Stratford 1, AA r anganui 1, Wellington 1. Opthalmia Neonatorun, 1 (Stratford). . * 217 INFLUENZA CASES. 213 MILD, 4 PNEUMONIC. In all 217 cases of influenza were notified in the Wellington Health District from the loth to the 22nd of March—2l3 mild and 4 pneumonic. For the previous week the figures were 316 mild and 4 pneumonic; total, 320. The cases were distributed amongst the various hospital distx-icts as under:— AVaipawa, 2 mild. Taranaki, 62 mild —New Plymouth 41, AVaitara 17, Inglewood 4. Stratford, 12 mild. Hawera, 24 —Hawera borough 14 mild and 1 pneumonic, Kapouga 2 mild, Eltham 7 mild. Patea,' 16 —Fatea borough, 12 mild; Waverley, 4 mild. Wanganui, 34—Hunterville, I mild and 1 pneumonic; Bulls, 2 mild; Wanganui, 29 mild and 1 pneumonic. Palmerston North, 7 mild. Wellington, 31 mild and 1 pneumonic. Wairarapa, 17 mild. ■ Nelson, 11 mild (Wakefield, 11).