|Chronic |Congenital | Tertiary | Total | | |Gonorrhoea |Syphilis | Syphilis | | | |----------+----+------+----+-----+----+-----+----+-----+ Urban Area. | C |Rate | C |Rate | C |Rate | C |Rate | C |Rate | | a |per | a |per | a |per | a |per | a |per | | s |1,000| s |1,000 | s |1,000| s |1,000| s |1,000| | e | | e | | e | | e | | e | | | s | | s | | s | | s | | s | | --------------+----+-----+----+------+----+-----+----+-----+
----+-----+ Auckland | 147| 0.89| 42| 0.26| 194| 1.18| 383| 2.33| 743| 4.52| Wellington | 240| 2.17| 42| 0.38| 183| 1.65| 465| 4.20| 723| 6.53| Christchurch | 63| 0.57| 15| 0.14| 87| 0.79| 165| 1.50| 303| 2.75| Dunedin | 96| 1.31| 18| 0.25| 59| 0.80| 173| 2.35| 329| 4.48| Hamilton | 22| 1.47| ..| ..| 10| 0.67| 32| 2.14| 50| 3.34| Cisborne | 9| 0.60| 2| 0.13| 9| 0.60| 20| 1.34| 27| 1.81| Napier | 8| 0.45| 3| 0.17| 9| 0.51| 20| 1.13| 50| 2.83| Hastings | 1| 0.07| 2| 0.15| 2| 0.15| 5| 0.37| 7| 0.52| New Plymouth | 3| 0.22| ..| ..| ..| ..| 3| 0.22| 6| 0.52| Wanganui | 29| 1.20| 6| 0.25| 21| 0.87| 56| 2.32| 82| 3.39| Palmerston N. | 12| 0.69| 5| 0.29| 3| 0.17| 20| 1.14| 38| 2.17| Nelson | ..| ..| 4| 0.37| 10| 0.92| 14| 1.29| 15| 1.38| Timaru | 5| 0.31| ..| ..| 8| 0.50| 13| 0.81| 20| 1.25| Invercargill | 7| 0.36| ..| ..| 10| 0.51| 17| 0.87| 18| 0.92| --------------+----+-----+----+------+----+-----+----+-----+
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TABLE G.

VENEREAL DISEASES IN NEW ZEALAND AS AT 16TH SEPTEMBER, 1922.  —­PROPORTION OF CASES PER 1,000 OF POPULATION IN EACH HEALTH DISTRICT.

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|          |       Total Cases       Proportion Cases per 1,000|
Health   |Estimated |      (all Diseases)     |  Estimated Population   |
District  |Population+---------+---------+-----+---------+--

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|1st April,|Recent   |Distant  |Grand|Recent   |Distant  |Grand|
|1922      |Infection|Infection|Total|Infection|Infection|Total|
-----------+----------+---------+---------+-----+---------+-

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N. 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|     0.88|     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|
-----------+----------+---------+---------+-----+---------+-

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Dominion   |          |         |         |     |         |         |     |
Totals     | 1,244,265|    1,278|    1,753|3,031|     1.03|     1.41| 2.44|
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TABLE H.