INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Southland Times, Issue 18844, 9 June 1920, Page 5

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SMALLPOX. NO CASES YESTERDAY. No cases of smallpox were reported yesterday, but tin; doctors bad a busy time vaccinating school children, where the consent of the parents or guardians could be obtained. FALSE ALARM IN CANTERBURY. ERRONEOUS REPORT FROM TEMUKA. (Special to the Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 8. In yesterday's health bulletin one case of variola varicella wa.- reported from Temuka. Variola is mild smallpox, which no health officer likes to have in his district, us it is highly infectious and dangerous. Dr Telford, District Health Officer, went south, ijilt was able to say on his return that the case was not smalipox, but merely a skin disease. Dr Telford says that his district is clear of smallpox. Asked as to whether the time of year was favourable to the disea c, Dr Telford replied that smallpox was not seasonal, and the mortality was as high in one season as another. INFLUENZA IN WELLINGTON. END OF THE WAVE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 7. “I regard the position as very satisfactory. Apparently we have readied the end of the wave,” remarked the District Health Officer (IT Fans • to-day, in reviewing the influenza statistics for the Wellington district Dr Faris added that it looked as if the district was going to have a quiescent period now, although the possibility of further mild waves of influenza during the .winter should not be ovedooked. For tint week ended noon to-day only 269 case.; were not died, a decrease of 666 cases compared with the figures for the previous week, it decrease of SSO cases on the total recorded two weeks ago. Nelson, with an increase of four cases, was the only district in which a failing off was not disclosed. Of the latest notifications, fifteen were listed as pneumonic. In the previous, week there were 21 cases in this, category, and one as severe.