--+----------+---------+

-----------------+--------------------------------------+
|Percentages (all forms) to Grand Total|
Health District +-----------+--------------+-----------+
| Gonorrhoea | Soft Chancre | Syphilis |
-----------------+-----------+--------------+-----------+
North Auckland | 66.67| ..| 33.33|
Auckland | 52.59| 0.31| 47.10|
Hawke's Bay | 52.76| 2.36| 44.88|
Wanganui | 63.16| 0.81| 36.03|
Wellington | 54.19| 0.46| 15.35|
Canterbury | 47.03| 0.52| 52.45|
Otago | 48.07| ..| 51.93|
+-----------+--------------+-----------+
Dominion totals | 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.

-----------------+----------+--------------------------------+
| | Cases of Recent Infection |
| +----------+----------+----------+
| |Gonorrhoea | Syphilis | Total |
| | | | |
|Estimated +----+-----+----+-----+----+-----+
Urban Area |Population| C |Rate | C |Rate | C |Rate |
|1st | a |per | a |per | a |per |
|April, | s |1,000| s |1,000| s |1,000|
|1922 | e | | e | | e | |
| | s | | s | | s | |
-----------------+----------+----+-----+----+-----+----+-----+
Auckland | 164,450 | 214| 1.30| 146| 0.89| 360| 2.19|
Wellington | 110,680 | 159| 1.44| 99| 0.89| 258| 2.33|
Christchurch | 110,200 | 79| 0.72| 59| 0.53| 138| 1.25|
Dunedin | 73,470 | 54| 0.74| 102| 1.39| 156| 2.12|
Hamilton | 14,950 | 15| 1.01| 3| 0.20| 18| 1.20|
Cisborne | 14,920 | 7| 0.47| ..| ..| 7| 0.47|
Napier | 17,670 | 17| 0.96| 13| 0.74| 30| 1.70|
Hastings | 13,530 | ..| ..| 2| 0.15| 2| 0.15|
New Plymouth | 13,510 | 3| 0.22| ..| ..| 3| 0.22|
Wanganui | 24,170 | 14| 0.58| 12| 0.50| 26| 1.08|
Palmerston North | 17