INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 December 1927, Page 5

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

SUBSTANTIAL DECREASE. A very- substantial decrease was recorded in the Wellington health district notifications of infectious diseases for the week ended at noon yesterday-, when compared with the figures for the preceding seven days. In the Wanga-nui-Horowhcnua area the position remains about the same, while there is a decrease of nine cases in the Waira-rapa-East Cape area, a considerable eas-ing-off in scarlet fever being responsible for this. In Wellington Central the decrease is more notable. Notifications of cases in the Wellington area were as follow, last week’s figures being given in parentheses:— Wanganui-Horowhenua: Scarlet fever, 6 (2); diphtheria, 2 (3); erysipelas, 2 (0); ophthalmia neonatorum, I (0); enteric fever, 0 (1); tuberculosis, 0 (4); pneumonia, 0 (2); total, II (12). Wairarapa-East Cape: Scarlet fever, 3 (9); diphtheria, 3 (5); enteric fever, 7 (3); tuberculosis, 1 (S); erysipelas, 1 (]); puerperal fever, 3 (1); pneumonic influenza, 1 (0); septic abortion, 0 (1); total, 19 (28). Central Wellington: Scarlet fever, 6 (]3); diphtheria, 3 (6); tuberculosis, 0 (1); pneumonia, 0 (3); erysipelas, 0 (1); total, 9 (24).