INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3196, 21 September 1917, Page 5

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

' REDUCTION IN WELLINGTON. The Health Inspector's report on the month ended September 11, which was presented to the Wellington Hospital ; Board yesterday, ■ stated - that 66 cases of infectious, disease had been attended .■ to. Following are details, together with figures for comparison: > Last Last 1917. M'th. Year. • Scarlet Sever 11 .18 25 Diphtheria 38 83 32 ; ' Enteric fevor 1 ,1 0 .Tuberculosis -14 8 9 'Blood-poisoning .1 ' 3 1 Cerebro. S.M" -0 1 . 2 Infantile paralysis I) 0 .0 . Opthalmia Neonatorum 1 * * -i 66 114 73 '■'■♦Not a. notifiable -disease till August 10, 1917. ' , ' Infectious diseases occurred in the fol- . lowing places: ' En-Tuber-Scarlet Diph- teric cu- - l?ever. them; Fever, losis. - Wellington. ...... 8 ' 27 .1 9 > Miramar ......... —-.1. — • - i Petonn — . ; — • — 1 Lower Hutt ...... — 4 — . — Belmont — 2 — — Trentham ...... 1 . 3 • — ■ — TJpper Hutt 1 — — — 1 To Horo — • — — " 1 , Otaki — •. — — 2 t ■ Manakan — 1 — , — , Poroutawhaoa 1 — — 1 ■ V 11. 38 ' 1. 11 ' The Wellington cases occurred as under:—Newtown, 5 scarlet feveiy 9 diph-. theria, 3 tuberculosis, 1' enteric fever; Mount Victoria, 5 diphtheria, ,1 tuberculosis; To jVro Plat, 5 diphtheria, 2 tuber- ,■■ culosis, 1 scarlet fevar; Kelburn, 2.:tiph« theria; Thorodon, 3 diphtheria; Berham■mre, 1 scarlet fever, jl tuberculosis; Island Bay, l" tuberculosis; Maranui, 1 scarlet fever; Kilbirnie -South, 1 diplitheria; Brooklyn, 3, diphtheria; . Ato Street, 1 tuberculosis; Basin Reserve, 1 diphtheria; Vogeltown, 1 diphtheria. • The.'report added , that there was a great diminution in the number of cases of infectious disease notified.