INFECTIOUS DISEASES
CASES FOR THE WEEK. Thirty-six cases of infectious disease were reported in the Wellington Public Health District for the week ended noon yesterday. For the previous week 182 cases were notified, but that number included 143 notifications of measles, which aro not now notifiable. It is believed that measles is still very prevalent, but only in a mild form. Although there has been a good deal of influenza in the city and district of late, 'there has apparently been an absence 6f the pneumonic typo, for no such cases have been brought under the notice of tho Health Office. Pneumonic- influenza is still notifiable, although it is not compulsory to report ordinary cases of tho disease. . Hospital districts which reported cases of infectious disease during tho past week were:—Waipawa: Diphtheria, 1; Palmerston North; influenza 1, pneumonia 1; Wellington: scarlet fever 3, diphtheria 11, tuberculosis 3, cerebrospinal meningitis 1, puerperal septicaemia 1. influenza 1, pneumonia i, chickenpox 1; Wnirarapa: diphtheria 1; Wairau: diphtheria 1; Nel?on: scarlet fever 1, diphtheria 1. pneumonia. 4. The following table gives details of tho cases notified, the figures for the previous week also being shown for purnoses of comparison :— . Last Previous week. week. Scarlet fever 4 9 Diphtheria 15 12 Tuberculosis 3 Cerebro-spinal meningitis 1 0 Puerperal septicaemia 1. t Influenza 2 1 Pneumonia 9 " Chicken-pox J 5 Measles 0 U3 Totals 3G 182
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 289, 31 August 1920, Page 4
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230INFECTIOUS DISEASES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 289, 31 August 1920, Page 4
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