DEATHS AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9288, 24 April 1920, Page 5

DEATHS AT CHRISTCHURCH.

(Pei- Press Association.)

CHKISTCHURCH, April 24. The Health Department* reported yesterday that in the twenty-four-hour period ending noon 92 cases' were registered in Canterbury and Weetland. Only three were of the serious type. The total number of pneumonic caßes reported since Monday was seven.

The figures since the beginning of the week are :—

North Totals (Cant. *Monday ... 137 120 Tuesday ... 114 61 Wednesday ... 120 102. Thursday \... 121 83" .Friday ... 92 82. ■^Monday's figures cover all the cases reported since Saturday at noonl

The Health Department reported that two deaths from pneumonic in-.: , ' fluenza had occurred during the twen-ty-four hours euding noon yesterday,, one in Christ church and one in Westport. \ Yesterday's new cases were made up" as follows:— North Canterbury 82 South Canterbury ....... & Ashburton ... ... ...... 1, Westland ... ... ..;■'. « 6 These figures include seventy-eight mild cases and two pneumonic in Christehurch. One pneumonic is reported from Grey. The Public Health Department has fifty beds available at once in oa.se of a serious outbreak. In thirty-six hours it would have nearly two hundred beds, ready, and this number could be tre-' bled before a week had passed. In the 1 isolation ward at the, Christchurch Hospital yesterday there were twenty-two mild cases of influenza and four severe cases.. During Thursday night a woman, thirty years of age,, died as a result of pneumonic influenza. : ", Later. To-day's influenza report shows 41 new cases at Christehurch, three being pneumonic. Since yesterday afternoon * no influenza patients have been, .admitted to the hospital and no deaths have occurred. Several country day schools have been closed, and the. authorities request the local Sunday schools to close.