INFECTIOUS DISEASES

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12195, 21 July 1925, Page 9

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

VERY SLIGHT INCREASE. There is a very slight increase in the number of infectious disease cases notified this week. Diphtheria numbers nro the highest in the list, and they show an increase of fivo over the previous week’s cases. Other diseases are normal. The Nelson and Marlborough districts have only one case this week, that being pneumonia. The total cases last week numbered 43. This week’s figures are 47. The following nre the figures for the v ireek ending July_ 20th, 1&23 „ (laat

week’s figures being mentioned in parentheses) : Taranaki and Horowhenua Districts. —Scarlet fever, I (3); diphtheria, 3 e (2); tuberculosis, 3 (3); cerebro-spinal - meningitis, 1 (0); puerperal fever, l s (1); pneumonia, 1 (1); total, 10. y Wnirarapa and East Cape District*. - —Scarlet fever, 4 (o); diphtheria, 9 (6); e enteric fever, 1 (0); tuberculosis, 4 (4); b puerperal fever, 1 (0); trachoma, 1 (0); total, 20. s Central Wellington.—Scarlet fever, s 4 (1); diphtheria. 8 (7); tuberculosis, 3 iO); puerperal fever, 1 (2); total, 16. o Tvelson and Marlborough Districts.t Pneumonia, L; total, L,_