INFLUENZA.
RAVAGES AT PAPEETE. EXPERIENCES OF STEAMER SALVOR. W FHES3 ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM,) WELLINGTON, December 26. A The steamer Salvor, which arrived in Wellington on Tuesday, called at Papeete in the latter part of November. She found all business at a standstill owing to the ravages of the influenza epidemic. The natives and French, settlers were dying like flies. There wero no coal lighters or labour available, so the problem of filling the bunkers was a difficult one. The captain gave all the ship's medical supplies -to the authorities ashore to cope with the epidemic, and the whole of the ship's crew set about attending to the sick and aiding in the disposal of the doad. The crew obtained coal from a supply yard, and wheeled it in trucks a quarter of a mile to the pier, where the Salvor was berthed. After a stay lasting 15 days, 190 tons of coal were on board, and the vessel left for Wellington. Ab nearly all on board haa suffered from influenza before joining the Salvor, they were apparently immune from further attack, and came through the experience without trouble. On arrival here the ship had only five tons of coal in the bunkers.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16405, 27 December 1918, Page 6
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