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Venereal Diseases.—Tables 11 and 12 show the numbers of persons attending the venereal-diseases clinics for the years 1944-48 :

Table 11—Number of Persons Seen for First Time and Found to be Suffering from Syphilis

Table 12. —Number of Persons Seen for First Time and Found to be Suffering From Gonorrhœa

Infectious Disease in Maoris.—The figures do not call for any special comments, and, except in poliomyelitis, are mostly lower than the figures for preceding years. The attached tables give details of the notifiable diseases reported in 1948.

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Year. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch. Dunedin. Total. Grand Totals. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. | 1 F. 1944 21 48 14 26 14 10 27 4 76 88 164 1945 61 34 11 20 15 8 27 6 114 68 182 1946 77 26 20 25 25 13 30 4 152 68 220 1947 58 52 7 28 16 5 26 4 107 89 196 1948 84 61 23 42 29 4 25 4 161 111 272

Year. Auckland. Wellington. Christclmrch. Dunedin. Total. Grand Totals. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1944 215 470 140 59 139 86 50 22 544 637 1,181 1945 389 413 178 54 149 66 46 9 762 542 1,304 1946 639 329 235 42 168 31 115 13 1,157 415 1,572 1947 623 303 262 41 168 27 53 19 1,106 390 1,496 1948 555 261 247 43 138 33 53 23 993 360 1,353