THE EPIDEMIC.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16397, 17 December 1918, Page 6

THE EPIDEMIC.

EXPENSES TO RE PAID BT

GOVERNMENT

(rnESS ASSOCIATION- TELEGRAM.)

WELLINGTON, December 16. Cabinet has decided to pay. all th» costs of the nursing* and medical service, equipment, and maintenance of emergency hospitals and other ox pen sea directly arising from epidemic, including the deficiencies m Hospital. Boards' stocks of medical supplios. The Government will not pay expenditure incurred either by Hospital _ Boards or local authorities in tlio exercise of their ordinary functions, such as sanitation work arising out of the cleaning up of towns and districts, neither will it $ve n subsidy of 24s in tho pound on contributions raised for the relief of distress. ENDED AT DUNEDIN. (press association telegram.) DUNEDIN, December 16. The epidemic now is regarded as ended. There wero, no notifications of pneumonic cases this morning. There was one influenza admission to hospital in twenty-four hours. No deaths have occurred. THE EPIDEMIC~IN AUSTRALIA. (Br Cable.—Pr«M Association.—Copyright.) (Iteceivod December 16th, 11.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 1(5. One death from tho Makura is reported in quarantine. It is that of a steward named Grainger. Tho Court of Enquiry is setting to ascertain whether any of the " Medic'# officers were allowed ashore in New Zealand.