INFECTIOUS DISEASES
INCREASE IN WANGANUI Last year 190 cases of infectious diseases were notified to the Wanganui City Council, compared with 133 the previous year, stated the chief sanitary inspector (Mr Steele). Details are (last year's*figures in parenthesis):— Scarlet fever, 149, (101); diphtheria, 30, (21); dysentery, 4, (4); meningitis, 3, (3); malaria, —, (2); infantile paralysis, —, (1); actinimycosis, 1, (1); hydatids. 3. ( ); total, 190, (133). “These figures show a marked increase over the previous year, occasioned by the high incidence of scarlet fever, a condition general in New Zealand,” Mr. Steele stated. “Each notification necessitated an inspector visiting the home for the purnose of enquiry and ensuring home isolation. In addition certain cases require the transport of contacts to hospital for observation purposes. By this means a number of contacts of infection have been proven by the bacterioligist to have contracted the disease prior to the first symptom being apparent and thus it was possible to commence treatment much earlier than normally.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 117, 22 May 1946, Page 7
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