The New Zealand medical journal
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During an eight year period in the Auckland coronial district, 225 persons over the age of fifteen years died from drowning and were subject to autopsy. Of these, 129 males and 21 females drowned because of accidents whilst 31 males and 29 females committed suicide by drowning. ⋯ At least half of the accidents showed analytical evidence of having consumed alcohol and in 37% of these the blood alcohol level was over 100 mg per 100 ml of blood. The activities in which the accidentally drowned were engaged at the time of their deaths are documented and the role of intercurrent illnesses in some drownings illustrated.
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An attempt was made to find the number of confirmed immunisations received by a group of Whangarei four-year-olds. The claims made for the immunisation benefit by each child's general practitioner were compared with questionnaire responses given by the parents of the children. Of 135 parents, 91.1% claimed that their child had received all four early childhood immunisations. ⋯ These findings suggest that many children miss one or two immunisations rather than a few missing most. Present methods of monitoring may therefore tend to over-estimate the level of full immunisation. Computerisation of immunisation data is proposed as an alternative.
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Comparative Study
An assessment of home monitoring of blood glucose levels in Dunedin.