HEALTHY SEPTEMBER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES ON DECREASE DEPARTMENTAL RETURNS September was a comparatively healthy month, according to figures supplied for the Auckland district by the Department of Health, 279 cases of infectious diseases being reported as against 307 in August. September’s total was two more than that of July. Scarlet fever showed a marked decrease, GO cases being reported last month as against 113 in August. Diphtheria was also less prevalent, notifications being 25, less than half that of the previous month. Pneumonia and pneumonic influenza, however, were decidedly more in evidence, but there was. by no means an alarming number of cases. Details of the returns are as follow, figures for August being given in parentheses:—Central Auckland, IGI (128); South Auckland, 61 (88); North Auckland, 36 (ol); Thames-Tauranga, 21 (34). Classified according to the diseases, the figures were:—Scarlet fever, GO (113); diphtheria, 25 (53): enteric fever, § (S); tuberculosis, 55 (42); pneumonic influenza, G (7); pneumonia, 79 (38); erysipelas, 7 (10): puerperal fever, 10 (16); tetanus, 1 (1); ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 (1); eclampsia, 3 (2); lethargic encephalitis, 1 (0); and dysentery, 4 (5).
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 14
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182HEALTHY SEPTEMBER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 14
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