HEALTH IN EGMONT COUNTY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 8

HEALTH IN EGMONT COUNTY.

'CASES DURING LAST YEAR. Mr. F. S. Swindejls, inspector of health, submitted a report for the year 1921 to the meeting of the Egmont County Council yesterday, showing that there had been 43 cases of infectious disease in the Egmont County, including’ the town of Opunake. These comprised ten cases of scarlet fever, nine of diphtheria, five of enteric fever, two of tuberculosis, five of pneumonia, eleven of influenza pneumonia, and one easp of infantile paralysis. Adequate precautions had been taken with regard to the cases, nineteen of which were removed to hospital for treatment. In the past the cases for the Optmake town district had not been separately tabulated, and the returns for that district were therefore included in those for the county. Scarlet fever, diphtheria and influenzal pneumonia had been the most prevalent of the notifiable diseases. Five of the scarlet fever oases were discovered while he was making other investigations, otherwise there would have been no notification. An extension of a diphtheria case resulted in three other eases in the same household, and there were about ten Maori cases, which had swelled the total. The figures, therefore, for the county amount to 18.45 per cent, of the tbtal for the district, and on a population basis are at the rate of 13.32 per 1000 of population.