PUBLIC HEALTH.
INTERESTING STATISTICS. At to-day's meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board it was stated that the health inspectors made inquiries during Juno into 92 cases of scarlet fever, 71 of diphtheria, 1(5 of tuberculosis, 3 of erysipelas, 2 of puerperal septicemia, and 11 suspected cases of infectious disease. There we/o ■lO7 other inspections or inquiries made. Eighty-five eases were in tho Infectious Diseases Hospital. Tho following figures gave tho total number of scarlet fever and diphtheria cases in the period from April 1 to July 17, in the, respective years:— inn . . . 252 1912 ... 77 J 013 ... 78 ]9M . . . lon 1915 . . .204 1916 . . • 520 1917 . • ■ 599
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12068, 25 July 1917, Page 6
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