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Table showing Incidence and Mortality of the Principal Infectious Diseases in the Centres of Population, Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Marlborough, and Nelson Districts, 1st January to 31st December, 1910.

Canterbury and Westland Districts. Infectious Disease. The returns for infectious disease being' now made up for the year from the Ist January to -'list December, include the returns of January. February, and March which have already been included in the annual report for 1909—10. The returns therefore are not exactly comparable with previous returns. Dangerous Infectious Diseases. Leprosy. —One leper was admitted to Quail Island from the North Island in August. The disease was probably contracted in Australia. Small-pox. —The s.s. " Knight of the Garter " arrived in Lyttelton on the 30th December with a ease of small-pox on board. The patient was the second officer, and infection was probablv contracted in Shanghai. As soon as tin disease was recognized, on the 22nd December, the patient was isolated in the forecastle, and was attended to only by the captain. He was removed to Quail Island on the 31st December. A nurse was obtained to look after him, and he made a good recovery. The usual precautions with regard to vaccination, quarantine, and disinfection were carried out. and ther cases developed.

• City or Borough. Scarl Sc let Fever or larlatina. BO i o Diphtheria. _ Enteric or Tuberculosis, lyphoid Fever. 2 ■ 2 • ' 5 • rr) « -3 * rgj CU •—• . SJ • — . 4. ■ — t« >rle CC CO >P. « I tj ■ ■ | ! ts III O SB* 1 A Z I 0) hM 9 to arM - o a I tf , -3 I fl tf _ SrA 4-* a> • a do >> Ph ■5 2S B , « New Plymouth Inglewood Waitara Stratford Hawern Eltham Patea Wanganui Wanganui East Marton Taihape Feilding Foxton Palmerston North . . Levin Wellington Onslow Karori Petone Lower Hutt Miramar Pahiatua Masterton Carterton Greytown Waipawa Dannevirke Woodville Hastings Napier Gisborne Blenheim Picton Nelson Motueka 18 .. 2 .. 8 .. 2 .. 3 .. 4 .. 1 5 .. 1 1 2 .. 5 1 I I .. Ill 1 .. 1 ■I .. 3 .. 1 11 2 .. 5 .. i "' i .. 6 .. i .. 7 .. 15 .. 4 6 2 2 3 1 5 1 5 4 73 3 2 1 4 2 2 3 2 2 1 i 7 8 2 112 2 7 3 9 10 2 4 2 : i 6 3 22 13 2 3 2 3 .. 2 8 1 1 7 1 3 1 2 I 3 .. 2 1 1 .. 3 11 .. 1 1 1 1 1 2 9 1 8 1 4 1 2 2 1 10 3 1 7 1 3 7 I 7 .. 2 .. 8 .. 32 5 1 2 20 2 1 6 1 58 4 1 3 1 23 1 6 til 21 1 1 1 4 " " 3 .. 1 .. 2 1 5 2 1 3 5 1 2 ■ 2 . . - - 1 I 1 '.'. 1 i 2 2 4 i i 6 .. 28: .. 30 .. 2 3 2 111 II i 2 .. Totals 250 ..112 236 146 7 44 15 118 14 135 56 86