INFLUENZA IN NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 105, 3 May 1919, Page 13

INFLUENZA IN NEW ZEALAND.

INCREASE IN CANTEKUURY. (Ky Telegraph. Press Association.) I'llKlSTe'll'l;, if. Friday. The nillli.irlt'r-s think that t'.i;-re is will s ( . e a n'cnideY.-eiice here of the illlllien/il e-pide-nie-. I);:, n_ toe past I we) i!a;/B there have in-eii '_'.! n.ililiciUinn.s in the t'auferbiiry and Wivtlaini iiealtii districts. Of these, live are ca.M-, of inlluen7.a-pneum.lnia. tun of liiein being severe. In Smith ('anterlmrv diiriii_ (he same period there were eig-ln notiilcatieitis. iw.> of which ure pneumonia. Dr. Vox, supoiiiitetiieiit of lin- Christchurcli Hospital, stated |n-du\ that there have iiceii of .'ate a mi'niiiT of oascM of inlliienza-pneiinionia in the hospital and one dentil. He had n . il.iulit whatever that these cases were of the e-iiime type as those of ln<t November. Questioned to-day in regard to the numiier of cases of influenza in the Dominion, the Minister for Public Health said the position was much the -smne as that reported several days a_o Asked regarding- p-ecautionr. in the even of a possible recrudescence of the epi domic, the Minister .-aid the pe)-i:;oi was being closely watched ami nl machinery was ready to i>e broughl into operation should a recriuli'-ccnci take place.