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The following table shows the more prevalent infectious diseases in hospital districts during the year ended 31st December, 1914 : —
Scaelet Fever. The District Health Officer, Auckland reports : — The cases notified from the health district during the last five years are— 1910 .. .. ..994 | 1913 .. .. ..203 1911 .. .. ..367 | 1914 .. .. ..109 1912 .. .. ..235 | The epidemic which occurred in 1910 has now lost its influence, and the case rate has returned to the normal. As in the previous year, the cases have been mostly in the city and suburbs, with but a few scattered cases in the country. The District Health Officer, Wellington, reports : — The cases notified from the health district during the last five years are — 1910 .. .. .. 495 | 1913 .. .. .. 760 1911 .. .. .. 1,061 1914 .. .. .. 536 1912 .. .. .. 644 j This shows a slight decrease in the total number. In the Wellington City there were 163 cases, as compared with 235 cases in 1913.
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Health .District. Hospital District. ' -§ £ A .4 II rP^ • i so h |! ! if H " j S,|Q I I M o £h li, . kg a 3 mPM PH 0 H i I ~ I Auckland .. .. i Bay of Islands Marsden-Kaipara .. Auckland Waikato Thames Coromandel Waihi Bay of Plenty 2 14 5 11 69 228 22 69 2 32 2 5 14 11 228 69 32 5 15 5 67 19 104 217 44 1 3 82 I 17 2 9 6 2 65 176 54 331 26 4 66 11 1 30 2 2 1 6 6 1 6 4 2 1 2 1 2 7 116 110 965 413 120 10 29 163 15 7 5 54 2 2 Wellington, Hawke's Cook Bay, Nelson, and ! Waiapu Marlborough Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Taranaki Stratford Hawera Patea Wanganui Palmerston North .. Wellington Wairarapa Picton Wairau Nelson 4 4 3 2 1 5 46 13 20 6 22 6 28 37 3 1 2 40 88 53 59 222 85 30 31 2 13 2 14 44 4 2 5 13 6 6 84 25 4 16 2 16 2 9 20 51 4 25 2 1 13 , 2 5 3 .. 26 1 2 34 7 25 1 3 8 4.. 3 j 2 3 7 2 15 2 2 9 43 5 18 i 4 42 111 12 194 13 5 48 5 .. 25 4 .. 2 16 6 3 1 115 33 39 142 32 56 43 73 36 227 196 658 132 33 21 94 5 3 2 88 59 85 31 10 9 3 2 44 8 6 N o r fc h Canterbury Buller and Westland Westland Inangahua Grey North Canterbury .. Ashburton South Canterbury . . N o r t h Canterbury and Westland 11 7 12 .. 9 7 132 8 285 149 23 4 49 80 7 7 1 15 .. .. 1 .. 2 183 13 61 14 1 21 21 2 56 25 13 31 147 773 68 234 7 8 149 4 80 3 14 4 13 1 68 1 13 Otago and Southland Otago and Southland I Waitaki Wallace and Fiord.. Vincent Maniototo j Southland Otago 15 1 21 14 18 .. 1 1 85 55 200 40 1 14 1 55 40 1 1 3 14 20 2 13 7 2 2 3 1 4 1 .. 5 32 6 13 107 i 15 56 13 9 4 4 19 85 64 56 30 13 213 517 Totals 1,5061,091 1,095 859 957 162 1,123 63 268 6,033