[A] "Under my personal care on Saturday, 16th September, 1922," is to be interpreted to include all patients suffering from the conditions enumerated whom you are attending or have attended, and who you believe in the event of requiring further attendance would call you in or consult you, in other words, bonâ fide patients of your own. It is not intended that you are to enumerate only the patients actually seen by you on that date.

Medical superintendents or medical officers in charge of institutions will regard all patients in or attending their institutions as "under my personal care on Saturday, 16th September, 1922," irrespective of whom the actual medical attendant may be.

Please post this Reply Form as soon as possible after 16th September, 1922, and not later than 20th September, 1922.

Additional copies of this form are obtainable from the Medical Officers of Health, or the Secretary of the Board of Health, P.O. Box 1146, Wellington.



TABLE D.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand as at 16th September, 1922.—Numbers in Health Districts.

Health District Cases of Recent Infection. Cases of Distant Infection Grand Total Expression of Opinion
Gonorrhœa Soft Chancre Syphilis Total Chronic Gonorrhœa Congenital Syphilis Tertiary Syphilis Total Increase Decrease Not stated
North Auckland 10   1 14 10 1 5 16 30 7 2 11
Auckland 279 3 165 447 229 51 239 519 966 34 53 82
Hawke's Bay 35 3 17 55 32 10 30 72 127 6 19 24
Wanganui 59 2 37 98 97 10 42 149 247 13 16 24
Wellington 187 4 114 305 279 56 220 555 860 29 36 68
Canterbury 99 2 75 176 83 17 111 211 387 16 47 53
Otago 79   104 183 120 23 88 231 414 14 30 51
Dominion totals 748 14 516 1,278 850 168 735 1,753 3,031 119 203 313

Total replies received, 635.



TABLE E.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand as at 16th September, 1922. Totals (All Forms) of Gonorrhœa, Soft Chancre, and Syphilis, and Percentage of Grand Total.

Health District Totals (all Forms) of each Disease Grand Total Percentages (all forms) to Grand Total
Gonorrhœa Soft Chancre Syphilis Gonorrhœa Soft Chancre Syphilis
North Auckland 20   10 30 66.67   33.33
Auckland 508 3 455 966 52.59 0.31 47.10
Hawke's Bay 67 3 57 127 52.76 2.36 44.88
Wanganui 156 2 89 247 63.16 0.81 36.03
Wellington 466 4 390 860 54.19 0.46 15.35
Canterbury 182 2 203 387 47.03 0.52 52.45
Otago 199   215 414 48.07   51.93
Dominion totals 1,598 14 1,419 3,031 52.72 0.46 46.82



TABLE F.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand as at 16th September, 1922.—Incidence in Chief Centres showing Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population.

Urban Area Estimated Population 1st April, 1922 Cases of Recent Infection Cases of Distant Infection Grand Total
Gonorrhœa Syphilis Total Chronic Gonorrhœa Congenital Syphilis Tertiary Syphilis Total
Cases Rate per 1,000 Cases Rate per 1,000 Cases Rate per 1,000 Cases Rate per 1,000 Cases Rate per 1,000 Cases Rate per 1,000 Cases Rate per 1,000 Cases Rate per 1,000
Auckland 164,450 14 1.30 146 0.89 360 2.19 147 0.89 42 0.26 194 1.18 383 2.33 743 4.52
Wellington 110,680 159 1.44 99 0.89 258 2.33 240 2.17 42 0.38 183 1.65 465 4.20 723 6.53
Christchurch 110,200 79 0.72 59 0.53 138 1.25 63 0.57 15 0.14 87 0.79 165 1.50 303 2.75
Dunedin 73,470 54 0.74 102 1.39 156 2.12 96 1.31 18 0.25 59 0.80 173 2.35 329 4.48
Hamilton 14,950 15 1.01 3 0.20 18 1.20 22 1.47     10 0.67 32 2.14 50 3.34
Cisborne 14,920 7 0.47     7 0.47 9 0.60 2 0.13 9 0.60 20 1.34 27 1.81
Napier 17,670 17 0.96 13 0.74 30 1.70 8 0.45 3 0.17 9 0.51 20 1.13 50 2.83
Hastings 13,530     2 0.15 2 0.15 1 0.07 2 0.15 2 0.15 5 0.37 7 0.52
New Plymouth 13,510 3 0.22     3 0.22 3 0.22         3 0.22 6 0.52
Wanganui 24,170 14 0.58 12 0.50 26 1.08 29 1.20 6 0.25 21 0.87 56 2.32 82 3.39
Palmerston North 17,510 5 0.29 13 0.80 18 1.03 12 0.69 5 0.29 3 0.17 20 1.14 38 2.17
Nelson 10,880 1 0.09     1 0.09     4 0.37 10 0.92 14 1.29 15 1.38
Timaru 16,040 6 0.37 1 0.06 7 0.44 5 0.31     8 0.50 13 0.81 20 1.25
Invercargill 19,590 1 0.05     1 0.05 7 0.36     10 0.51 17 0.87 18 0.92



TABLE G.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand as at 16th September, 1922. —Proportion of Cases Per 1,000 Of Population in each Health District.

Health District Estimated Population 1st April, 1922 Total Cases (all Diseases) Proportion Cases per 1,000 Estimated Population
Recent Infection Distant Infection Grand Total Recent Infection Distant Infection Grand Total
North Auckland 36,930 14 16 30 0.38 0.43 0.81
Auckland 323,436 447 519 966 1.38 1.60 2.99
Hawke's Bay 80,242 55 72 127 0.62 0.81 1.42
Wanganui 110,866 98 149 247 0.8 1.34 2.23
Wellington 242,830 305 555 860 1.26 2.28 3.54
Canterbury 240,387 176 211 387 0.73 0.88 1.61
Otago 200,574 183 231 414 0.91 1.15 2.06
Dominion totals 1,244,265 1,278 1,753 3,031 1.03 1.41 2.44



TABLE H.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand as at 16th September, 1922. —Sex Numbers and Proportions in Health Districts.

Health District Cases of Recent Infection Cases of Distant Infection Grand Totals
Gonorrhœa Syphilis Totals Chronic Gonorrhœa Congenital Syphilis Tertiary Syphilis Totals
M F F. to 100 M M F F. to 100 M M F F. to 100 M M F F. to 100 M M F F. to 100 M M F F. to 100 M M F F. to 100 M M F F. to 100 M
North Auckland 10     3 1 33 13 1 8 8 2 25   1   4 1 25 12 4 33 25 5 20
Auckland 224 55 25 112 53 47 336 108 32 156 73 47 33 18 55 168 71 42 357 162 45 693 270 39
Hawke's Bay 28 7 25 12 5 42 40 12 30 27 5 19 7 3 43 22 8 36 56 16 29 96 28 29
Wanganui 40 19 48 25 12 48 65 31 48 74 23 31 5 5 100 29 13 45 108 41 38 173 72 42
Wellington 143 44 31 95 19 20 238 63 26 225 54 24 31 25 81 156 64 41 412 143 35 650 206 32
Canterbury 63 36 57 48 27 56 111 63 57 65 18 29 7 10 143 81 30 37 153 58 38 264 121 46
Otago 62 17 27 89 15 17 151 32 21 101 19 19 15 8 53 58 30 52 174 57 33 325 89 27
Dominion totals 570 178 31 384 132 34 954 310 32 656 194 30 98 70 71 518 217 42 1,272 481 38 2,226 791 36

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