PHTHISIS—MARKED INCREASE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1471, 20 June 1912, Page 4

PHTHISIS—MARKED INCREASE.

IS IT THE WET WINTER?

(By Telfgrspli.—Press Association.! Auckland, Juno 18V' In Ms report to tlto Dunedin Hospital Hoard, the medical superintendent of Hio'tei: Pleasant Volley Consumption Sanatorium :-"/i drew attention to the fact that appliesHons for admission to the institution dur- . 1 itig tho past six months had increased .i",< 100 per as compared with previous. ;J; years. • Th« reason attribulod by tho temlent ior Iho remarkable increase wus.u.'. the exceptionally wot weather that had prevailed. . ■ i'V With a view to ascertaining whet her. <.r - ---thero had be: n any such increase. localljy- aM a reporter waited on Dr. Makgiii, trict Health OlHcor, whn supplied Mm ' figures relating, io 1 no(ii;i'at?oi!s ot sumption eases for tin* piH- jivo >u.is in. , IW7 •. the number KHJ. jm<l, a year-< IfttVr, thi»n % wns on i«u , voiiM i > ol only oiuv.r hi' 11)0!) (lie iiirnros dropped to 1!S, but. rose to 137 in 1910, ami. iiyiiin.iiv Iu i : :! 177' Fiii' the veal' .iune. lflli. <o May, v , .1912,: the. lipures «ro 200—t ho hvavicst l'cr ■; '£ (iie past'half-decade. ■\skci ! for an explanation ot tho increase, • Dr. Makflill said that it was verv hard so obtain accurate data n.s to -iieV cases. Consumption was a very' dilToroi't thins to typhoid fever, for i<- . i slnnco the pronounced nature of which * 'left no doubt as to the nature of tho . complaint. Mnny of tho incipient •$; philiM.* cases wore not reported nv all. % The exceptionally wot weather of tho nacfc few months might have had the effect bPbringiW number of lew advanced cases to a bead, Ihlis accounting ior tho diitevenoo in figures. .