INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
1925 FIGURES
While 238 cases of acute polimyelitis, commonly known as infantile paralysis, were reported in the Canterbury and Westland Health District for the year 192-3, as against -I lor the previous twelve months, there were only 234 cases of diphtheria last year as compared with G 54 for 1921. There was a happy decline ill the scarlet fever figures, 372 cases being notified as agaisnt 408 for the previous year. Primary pneumonia, too, showed a falling off, there being only 110 notifications in 1025 as compared with 23(1 for the previous year. Tuberculosis, however, showed an increase, the notilicat ions being 309 lor 1925 as against 222 for 192-1.
The following arc the notifications of infections and other notifiable diseases for the year 1925, together with those lor 1924 for purposes of comparison:—
1925 1024 Scarlet fever 372 408 Diphtheria 234 (151 Enteric- fever Tuberculsois 31 21 (pulmonary) 309 222 (.‘erebro-spinal fever ... 3 7 Acute poliomyelitis ... 23S 4 Puerperal fever 47 53 Erysipelas 25 39 Ophthalmia) neonatorum 8 9 Influenza Pneumonia . Acute primary IS 34 pneumonia 110 230 Le tha rgi e encephalitis 5 8 Trachoma 4 1 Hydatids 7 — Tetanus 5 3 Septic abortion 22 8 Eclampsia 10 14 Pood poisoning 2 5 Actinomycosis 1 — Fulminant influenza .. n Phosphorus poisoning — 1 Lend poisoning — 2 A iichyTostmoiasis — 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1926, Page 1
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221INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1926, Page 1
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