PUBLIC HEALTH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19812, 2 December 1919, Page 7

PUBLIC HEALTH.

I POSmQN !H CANTERBURY, Tiii> monthly bulletin «f infectious diseases tor November, issued by the i Public Health Department, is. as follows: West-land—Diphtheria, two; pneumonia, one. Buller—Diphtheria, one; pneumonia, oi'te. luangulum—Pneumonia-, one. d rev—Scarlet t'evor, one; diphtheria, 1 five; tuberculosis, two I influenza, two, pneumonia, two; measles, two North Canterbury—Scarlet fever, tinrty-ono; diphtheria, forty-three; ; tuberculosis, twenty-six, puerperal septicaemia, one; inlluonza., seventy; ■ pneumonia, thirty-nine; measles, iii'tyiour: erysipelas, one; trachoma, one; J lethargic encephalitis, one: septic meningitid. one, Ar-hbniton—Scarletfevor, nine; diphtheria, two: tuberculosis, one; inlluenza, three; pneumonia, one; measle."., one-. South Canterbury—Scarlet fevet, thirteen; diphtheria, twelve: tuberculosis, three; influenza, l.woi pneu- ' monia. tivp. > 'total, 34.0. ■ BMVEEKLY REPORT. • The bi-weekly influenza bulletin up to ' noon on December 1 showed : North Canterbury.—Fire, including , three mikl and two pneumonic. Of the mild cases one is <at Richmond, one ;it ' Avonside and one at Sydenham. The ; pneumonic cases are both in Sydenham. I Other districts—Nil. l The bulletin ol infectious diseases for the week ending noon, December 1, is I as follows : '_ V/estland Pneumonia, one. Grey.—Pneumonia, one; measles, one. 1 North Canterbury.—ScaTlct fever, seven; tuberculosis, iivo; influenza, ; nineteen; pneumonia, t<?n; measles, ' thirteen; diphtheria, seven. " Ashburton.—Diphtheria, two; influenza, one; pneumonia, one. _ South Canterbury.—Scarlet fever, > three; diphtheria, two; tuberculosis, ? one: influenza, ono: measles, one. ; Totnl-76. 1