INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
A DECREASE. Seventy-two cases of infectious diseases were reported to the district health authorities for the week which ended at noon yesterday, a decrease of twenty-four cases compared with the notifications for the previous seven days. Following arc the cases reported in the various hospital districts, the figures for the previous week being given in parentheses: — Wanganui Horowhcniia. —Scarlet fever, 9 (Id); diphtheria, 1 (0); enteric fever, 1 (1); tuberculosis, 1 (5); pneumonia, .'1 (1); erysipelas, 2 (1); eclampsia, 1 (0); dysentery, 1 (0). Total, 19 (23). Wairarapa-East Cape.—Scarlet fever, 10 (Id); diphtheria, S (9); enteric fever, 2 (0); tuberculosis, 0 (3); erysipelas, 1 (1); ophthalmia neon, 1 (0); puerperal fever, 0 (1); dysentery, 0 (1). Total, 27 (30). Central Wellington. —Scarlet fever, 15 (14); diphtheria, 4 (7); tuberculosis, 4 (6); puerperal fever, 1(0); influenza, 0 (1); erysipelas, 0 (3); ophthalmia neon, 0 (1). Total, 24 (32). Nelson-Marlborough. —Tubelculosis, 1 (4); pneumonia, 1 (1); scarlet fever, 0 (4); puerperal fever, 0 (2). Total, 2 (11). Grand total, 72 (96.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 May 1928, Page 5
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