INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
DEATH RATE STILL LOWER TWO HOSPITALS NOW CLOSED., The Minister of Public Health (Hon^ G. W. Rusel) stated.last night.that tele-, grams which had been received from all) districts indicated a rapid abatement ofi! the epidemic. In several cases, district*, which had been supplied, with doctors' and medical students had advised thaS their services were no longer required^ Those doctors and students would therefore be removed to more infected. <lis-\ tricts, particularly ", where ..the!.- "Maori ■ population was largeY '■ . The deaths in^the Wellington hospital* ;-. during the twenty-four hours ended noon' / yesterday numbered only three, continued; the 1" Minister. Two of the Wellington! hospitals had been closed, ari3 134 beds in the remainder were vacant at nootf ■ yesterda-y. ' . . : .' Mr. Russell added that he had-no information to give regarding the spread? • of the disease to the Chatham, Islands.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 7
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