SIX ADMISSIONS IN WELLINGTON
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. The Wellington Public Hospital admitted six patients during the week-end with pneumonia and influenza complications, but the superintendent-in-chief (Dr. J. O. Mercer) said today that the number of these cases entering Wellington Hospital Board institutions in no way paralleled the experience at Auckland. The patients admitted in Wellington during the week-end had been from all age groups—infants, young servicemen and elderly people. At the Hutt Public Hospital, nine patients are under treatment for pneumonia complicating influenza. A distinct falling off in the number of cases was reported. Dr. Mercer said that, so far, the death-rate among these cases was low and many of the patients were resppnding to treatment with antibiotics, where the appropriate antibiotic was used. In general, only the newer
antibiotics, known as the broadspectrum group, were effective against the complications. Penicillin had been found to be the least effective.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28372, 3 September 1957, Page 14
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