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Table B.—Notifications of Cases of Notifiable Diseases by Health Districts for Year ended 31st December, 1946

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Name of Disease. North Auckland. Central Auckland. South Auckland. Thames-Tauranga. Taranaki. Bast Cape. Wellington - Hawke's Bay. Central Wellington. .a so I 1 1 £ Canterbury. West Coast. Otago. Southland. Totals. Scarlet fever 7 152 50 21 73 35 294 285 42 286 7 95 107 1,454 Diphtheria 25 486 352 74 122 49 243 104 74 26 1 11 10 1,577 Enteric fever — (a) Typhoid 8 3 2 3 1 5 5 9 36 (b) Paratyphoid 2 5 "l 4 1 13 Tuberculosis — (a) Pulmonary 23 367 73 34 51 21 147 269 52 279 31 123 60 1,530 (b) Other forms 1 41 8 4 6 2 23 71 4 63 8 40 19 290 Cerebro-spinal meningitis 16 7 6 8 2 5 23 2 7 2 6 3 87 Acute poliomelitis 7 7 1 9 9 1 7 61 10 112 Influenza 1 1 1 3 Erysipelas 5 64 16 5 5 3 21 39 "3 22 "l 6 3 193 Puerperal fever — (a) Ordinary 1 4 8 9 8 8 10 14 1 9 4 76 (b) Following abortion 26 1 1 14 22 2 66 Eclampsia 12 1 1 1 5 5 "2 19 9 55 Tetanus *2 7 5 1 4 2 1 1 23 Hydatids 1 3 2 *3 15 7 20 "l 52 Trachoma "l 4 2 2 9 Ophthalmia neonatorum 3 "l 1 1 "l 7 Food poisoning 5 1 2 32 35 139 16 io 5 245 Bacillary dysentery "l 39 2 "l 2 14 12 5 2 78 Amoebic dysentery 4 1 1 5 4 2 14 31 Undulant fever 3 • 1 *3 2 . 6 1 10 26 Chronic lead poisoning 2 2 Malaria i7 4 5 *4 8 4 ' 7 1 50 Lethargic encephalitis 1 1 1 3 Actinomycosis •• 1 1 2 Totals 66 1,263 542 161 293 171 844 997 197 826 62 372 226 6,020