INFLUENZA.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16506, 25 April 1919, Page 7

INFLUENZA.

STRANDED NEW ZEALAND^ 5 - (rr.K.-sS association tklec.RAM.) WELLINGTON. April 24. The Mayor received to-day the fo - lowing cable message from Sydney. "Several women who are pennile.-s aio waiting to return. Can you influence financial assistance? Reply Government Office. (Signod) Kent. As M.. Luke does not know who tho .sender is, lie says ho cannot 3! o11< t of .such an unofficial eomiminiciit.on. was punly a matter for the general l>overnmciit. A KINDLY ACT. (By Cablfl.-Press Associailor.-Copyright ) (Auitralifln and K.z,. Cable Association. (Received April 2-1 th, OXO l>- rn -> SYDNEY, Apnl "}■ Mr J. Kirkwood, an ex-New /ealander, has placed his home at Piigcton Lo .Sands at the disposal ot iutc-en stranded New Zealanders. VALUE OF INOCULATION. SxDNEY, April .24. Tho deaths from influenza in the metropolitan area have shown an appreciable decline in the past few uavs. Yesterday they fell to 10. 'Hie Previous average for somo timo was over 30. In the country, .however, it is more virulent, and continues to spread. The Federal health authorities tested 3151) cases to provo tho efficacy or otherwise of inoculation. Two tiioiisand of these were not inoculated. Thirty-four per cent, contracted the disease in a severe form and 11 pc 1 !' cent. died. Of tho 1150 inoculated, lt> per cent, contracted the disease severely and 3 per cent. died. These figures Have satisfied the quarantine authorities of the value of inoculation, both as regards contracting the disease in a severe form and tlie pfdßpe.cts.-of, a fatal termination.

AN ANCIENT DISEASE. (Received April 24th, 8.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 24. Tho Board ot Health lias reuommended the abolition of tho compulsory notilication of influenza on the ground that it is too drastic, interferes with business, and has led to unnecessary panic. In reply to a quostion whether it could bo assumed beyond question that tho visitation was not Spanish influenza, the chairman of the Board, I>r. Robertson, said influenza was the same now as in tho time of Hippocrates, but more virulent than it had been in former years. Every disease, had its degrees of virulence. Another member declared that thousands of the rases reported were merely simple colds, their notification helping towards the unwarranted paaic. ' THE MOTUIHI PATIENTS. (press association telegram.) AUCKLAND, April 24. There are no further developments at Motuihi; and all the patients arq reported to be making satisfactory progress. Five more patients were released from quarantine to-day, leaving twelve still on the island. CARPENTERS' DEMANDS FOR WORK ON MOTUIHI. (press association telegram.) AUCKLAND, April 24. In connexion with the erection of additional quarantine accommodation at Motuihi Island, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners has sent the following telegram to the Minister of Public Health: — ''With reference to the demand for carpenters for work at Motuihi, will your Department, in addition to the award rates, pay the men full wages and medical exponses in case of sickness and full compensation in case of deatn following on sickness contracted while on tho island, or within seven days of leaving there P"