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Ihere are branches of the laboratory work bearing on public-health questions which ought to be undertaken, but which we cannot face without increased assistance and accommodation. For instance only one sample of milk was received for detection of tubercle, whereas, under the Sale of *ood and Drugs Act, the Department should be responsible for the examination of the milk as delivered m .uunedin from over three hundred dairymen. ,nno?J ing , t0 + the j n ~ ed demand on my time for University, Hospital, and Laboratory appointments towards the end of the year you relieved me of the administrative control of my SSfi I tJ 4 T g J en ° Vel ', by Dr ' Finch - This enables me t0 devote more time to the scientific branches of the departmental work. Inspector Cameron, who was until recently stationed at lnvercargill, has been promoted to tn 2v rt T? he ™ such departmental work in the Otago Province which does not tail withm the duties of the Hospital Board's Inspectors. Wi? J Jam f Craighead and in April, W. M. Armour, were appointed Sanitary Inspectors by the Hospital Board, and have discharged their duties faithfully and well during the year During the year my laboratory assistant, Mr. Andrew Logan, has yielded faithful service, and during my enforced absence from work during two months of the year the greater part of the work was emciently and satisfactorily carried out under his supervision. I have likewise to thank my colleagues on the University and Hospital staffs for their cooperation and advice. Appended hereto is a detailed laboratory report, and tables and data relating to other matters. I have, &c, Sydney T. Champtalottp, M.8., Ch.B., B.Sc. (P.H.). B. APPENDICES TO THE REPORTS OF THE DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1011. Infectious Diseases. The diseases declared to be infectious diseases in the meaning of the Public Health Act, and consequently notifiable, are as follows : Scarlet fever, scarlatina, diphtheria, enteric fever, tuberculosis Puerperal fever (including milk-fever, sapraania, acute sepsis, septicemia), plague, smallpox, leprosy! cholera, actinomycosis, hydatids, beri-beri, blood-poisoning, cerebro - spinal meningitis including cerebrospinal fever, cerebral typhus, spotted fever, petechial fever, malignant purpuric fever), typhus Dombion fO —° Wing * h °™ munber oi cases of infectious disease notified throughout the

Health District. : Wellington, „ . Auckland. | Hawked Bay, °«te*ury Marlborough, „, " , ! and Nelson. Westland. Total. Nature of Disease. Otago and Southland. Scarlet fever Diphtheria Enteric fever Tuberculosis Blood-poisoning Hydatids Plague 367 223 346 177 55 8 1,06.1 322 357 278 34 11 589 202 51 130 15 2 345 121 38 134 8 4 2,362 868 792 719 112 17 8 Totals .. 1,176 2,063 989 650 4,878