INFECTIOUS DISEASES
* ■ FIGURES FOR PAST WEEK. During the week ended yesterday 44 cases of infectious diseases were notified within the AVellington health district, compared with 48 for the previous week. The number reported during the week still previous was 55. Only six eases of diphtheria are reported for last week, as against 13 for the previous week. The number of scarlet fever cases has increased from 6 to 15. The figures for the week in the various centres of the AVellington health district are as follow: — AVaipawa.—Scarlet fever, 4; pneumonia. 1. Palmerston North. —Scarlet fever, 3; diphtheria, 1; pneumonia, 1; varicella, 1 Wellington—Scarlet fever, 4; diphtheria, 4; enteric fever, 3; tuberculosis, 4; puerperal septicaemia, A; pneumonia, 2: varicella, 3; influenza, 2; erysipelas. t. Wairarapa.—-Scarlet fever, 3; diphtheria, 1; pneumonia. 2; varicella, 1. Nelson.—Scarlet fever, 1; enteric fever. 1. . The totals compared with the previous weeks figures are:— Last Previous week. week. Scarlet fever 15 11 Diphtheria r ' 1“ Enteric fever 4 0 Tuberculosis 11 ‘ Puerperal septicaemia .... 1 1 Pneumonia » 4 A T aricella 5 9 Influenza 2 J' Erysipelas 1 " Totals 48 CAUSATION OF DIPHTHERIA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, July 11. The Mayor has received a letter from the Hon. C. J. Parr in reply to a suggestion made by a recent deputation that a commission of experts be appointed to investigate the cause of diphthemi. The Minister’s opinion is that the suggestion is at present not possible of fulfilment. He proposes to communicate with the Medical Research Council and the Rockefeller Foundation, and ascertain whether they purpose in the near future undertaking any research into the causation of diphtheria, and offering to collaborate by supplying any information in his power. In the meantime the Department has been instructed to give special attention to Christchurch and fluliurbs, and endeavour by all possible means to ascertain the causes of the present outbreak. _____
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 246, 12 July 1921, Page 4
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311INFECTIOUS DISEASES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 246, 12 July 1921, Page 4
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