INFECTIOUS DISEASES
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE
Cases of infectious disease repelled in
the Wellington health district for the week ended noon yesterday, totalled 48, an increase of 10 over tile previous week’s figures. Scarlet fever was more prevalent, there being 30 cases in the four hospital districts. The figures for the districts are given below, totals for the previous week being in parentheses :—
Wanganui-Horowhenua: Scarlet fever 4 (1), pneumonia 4 (3), fulminant influenza 1 (0), diphtheria 0 (5), tuberculosis 0 (2). Total, 9 (11).
Wairarapa-East Cape: Scarlet fever 12 (3), diphtheria 1 (0), enteric fever 2 (I), tuberculosis 3 (2), poliomyelitis I (0), pneumonia 1 (0), pneumonic influenza 1 (0), ervsepelas 1 (1). Total, 22 (7).
Central Wellington: Scarlet fever 12 (8), diphtheria 1 (7), poliomyelitis 2 ’0), tuberculosis 0 (1), pneumonia 0 [I), erysipelas 0 (3). 'Total, 15 (20). Nelson-Marlborough: Scarlet fever 2 T). Total, 2 (0). Grand total, 48 (38).
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 13
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150INFECTIOUS DISEASES Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 13
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