INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1785, 3 November 1919, Page 11

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

PUBLIC HEALTH BULLETIN,

The bulletin of infectious diseases for last mouth for Canterbury and Westland is as follows: — Westland, tuberculosis 1; Inangahua, pneumonia 1; Grey, diphtheria 1, tuberculosis 2, pneumonia 1. North Canterbury, scarlet fever 21, diphethcria 67, enteric 2, tuberculosis 1 20, corebro spinal meningitis 1, puerperal septicaemia 1, influenza 1!7, pneumonia -'i7, measles 2;t, hydatids 3, erysipelas 1. Ashburton, scarlet fever 1, diphtheria 2, entei'ic 1, tuberculosis 2, influenza 1, pneumonia 1, measles 2. South Canterbury, scarlet fever 1.1, diphtheria 07, enteric 2, tuberculosis I, pneumonia 3, measles 2, making a total of 283. The bi-weekly bulletin of influenza cases as at noon to-day is:— Grey, two mild, both at Blackball. North Canterbury, six eases, one pneumonic at Papanui, five mild, four of which are in Christchureh, and one at Lyttelton. "The weekly bulletin of infectious diseases reads as follows: Buller, diphtheria 1, pneumonia 1; Grey, diphtheria 2, influenza 2. North Canterbury, scarlet fever 4, diphtheria 15, tuberculosis 7, influenza 8, pneumonia 10, measles 2, hydatids 1. Ashburton, tuberculosis 1. South Canterbury, scarlet fever 4, pneumonia 2 ; making a total of 60.