PUBLIC HOSPITAL STATISTICS
i "Tlie liospital statistics sliow tui in ! crease again 111 the average occupie.l j bed figure afler tlie Chnstiuas holiday i period, ' ' said the Aledical Superiii | tendent (Mr. J. 11. A'orth) in his report j to tlie inonihly tiieeting' of the Palmers- | 1 011 Xorth liospital Board lield in Palmerston Xorth yesterday. "Ward !» lias been closed for alterniions, and : Ward ld has been opened again whilej these renovations are in progress." The statistics sliowed tliat tlie uiiiuber of pntients reniaining in hospital at Jautiary P. 1 , was .'511, and the munber of j new pntients adinitted during Pebruary | was .">(.(>. Discharges in Pebruary totalled "52. and 21 pntients died. The! nuiubor reniaining at the end of Febrn- i
ary was 554, the ilaily average number of occupied beds being ,'532.5. Infectious JJiseases The number of cases of infectious diseases admitted during Pebruary were as follow, the numbers of Ihose reniain ing at the end of Ihe month being sliown" in parentheses in eacli case: — Bcarlet fcver -t (51, diphlheria 1 (2) typhoid ] (1), cereliro-spinal meningil.is 1 (-), liydatid 1 (1).
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1946, Page 7
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