INFLUENZA
RECENT EPIDEMIC REVIEWED The statistics for November indicate that the recent epidemic of influenza first began to assume noticeable proportions towards the middle of June, and finally exhausted itself' about the end of September. From June 19 to September 25 there were 308 deaths from the disease. The outbreak reached its highest point on August 7, when the fatal cases totalled 54. Thereafter the disease decreased in virulency. The deaths in the various provincial districts were as follow: Auckland 87'; Hawke’s Bay 13; Taranaki 15; Wellington 47; Marlborough 5; Nelson 16; Westland 7; Canterbury 84; Otago 22; Southland 12. The indications were that the outbreak originated in the Wellington provincial'district, the number of fatal cases recorded therein maintaining a Consistently high level until the eighth week, when normal conditions were resumed. The Wellington death-rate was 1.72 per 10,000 of population; Auckland 2.05; Canterbury 3.93; and Otago 1.47. The highest rate was in Westland, 4.66.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 8
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155INFLUENZA Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 8
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