SICKNESS ON INCREASE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 990, 5 June 1930, Page 18

SICKNESS ON INCREASE

FIGURES FOR AUCKLAND SCARLET FEVER PREVALENT Although fewer cases of infectious diseases were recorded for the whole of the Auckland Province during May than in the previous month, the number of eases reported in the Central Health District, which includes Auckland City, showed a decided increase, there being 151 notifications as against 124 in April. Reductions in the North Auckland district were by more than 50 per cent., and were nearly as great in the .Thames-Tauranga district. The most prevalent disease last month was scarlet fever, with 90 cases, of which 61 were in the central district, but this total is three below the April figure and 21 lower than that for March. The diphtheria total of 56 in March and 46 in April, had been still further reduced to 43 last month, and figures for tuberculosis also fell from 57 to 31. There were 26 pneumonia notifications, a reduction of one. The 151 cases in the central district were as follow: —Scarlet fever, 61; diphtheria, 32; enteric fever, 1; tuberculosis, 18; pneumonic influenza, 2: pneumonia, 19; erysipelas, 5; puerperal fever, 12; dysentery, 1. South Auckland figures were:—* Scarlet fever, 13; diphtheria, 8; enteric fever, 6; tuberculosis, 4; poliomyelitis, 1; pneumonic influenza, 2; pneumonia, 3; erysipelas, 4; puerperal fever, 1; eclampsia, 1; tetanus, 1; total, 44 cases. The North Auckland total of 215 cases was made up as follows:—Scarlet fever, 12; diphtheria, 3; tuberculosis, 7; erysipelas, 1; tetanus, 2. The following 11 cases were in the Thames-Tauranga district: Scarlet fever, 4; tuberculosis, 2; pneumonia, 4; erysipelas, 1.