INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2029, 16 August 1920, Page 11

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

MILD EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES. j Canterbury is slill atleeled will! n mild epidemic ill' measles, (il) cases having been i-rported foi' the week, as compared with 111 last week, US fc.r the «wk before, and six for the week ended Julv 21i. The District Health Oliiccr il)r l\ T. Telford i stated to-day thai tin- complaint was general thruughuut Canlcrburv, mid thai there was every likelihood of a further increase in the iiumher of eases before the wave linally expended itself. The weekly linlletin of infectious diseases issued hy Ihe Mill.lie Health Department contains Ihe following llgurrs for the C.anterlmr.v-W'esllaiid district: -Weslland : Huller, nil; Inaiigaluui, diphtheria 1. pneumonia 1; Grey, diphtheria 1: North Canterbury, diplitlieria t, enteric IS, tuberculosis 1, puerperal septica'mia 2, pneumonia til, measles 00, pneumonic inlhienzu I; Ashburten, diplitlieria 2, tuberculosis 1; South Canterbury, scarlet fever 1, pneumonia J. measles .'io; total, 1 10.