INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
SEVERE OUTBREAK OF DIPHTHERIA. April was remarkable for an epidemic of diphtheria, and a mild outbreak of scarlet fever. At to-day’s meeting of the Hospital Board the medical officer of health forwarded a statement of the notifications of infectious disease received during the month of April, ns follows: Diphtheria . . .58 Scarlet fever . . .11 Enteric fever . .3 Tuberculosis » .19 Poliomyelitis ... 5 Ei vsipelos . . .5 Varicella d Puerperal, septicaemia . 1* Lethargic encephalitis ] Tt was reported that only 15 patients remained m Iho infectious diseases hospital at present.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16434, 24 May 1921, Page 7
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