EPIDEMIC ELSEWHERE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 8

EPIDEMIC ELSEWHERE

•'. (M IBUBOBAPH.—PEBSS. ASSOCIATION.) ':.* '. :.;..DUNEDIN, This Day. ';JThe influenza position shows great im'^roveraent to-day. There were 11 admissions to the public hospital in 24 luSjirs, Jmd 1 the" number of deaths was sirralL Dr. Bowie, acting-medical superintendent, said' that if' the restrictions Ideally ;hadjbeen Jeft.tfll next week he would have been able to let patients go with some kind .of confidence. r« .'CHRISTCHURGH, This Day. ' The 'influenza, .epidemic ■is abating slowly. ' During the twepty-four hours ended at nooni there were seven admissions tq the' hospital and one death. ,THere are 131,^caees still in hospital. /.?. '. , PAHIATUA,, This Day. '. •; The epidranic- m -now in hand. The /total admissions for the emergency hos[pitil numbered 67. The deaths in hosmital werelirSnd the cases remaining {.total 21. The-' total deaths for the disftjigt were 26. ■*£ , WAIMATErThis Day. . • 'A meeting of retailers decided to urge jtJie re-imposing of the' closing regulathe' Health Department's relaxjatipn boiiig considered premature as jfiiiS as this- district- ia concerned. . The (Hospital Committee last night resolved !£Jmilarly..v.J>r. Pitts stated to <he comjnbttee that he knew of no influenza case UiiSthis district not, traceable to ChriatSdrijrch in^CarniTal;;.Week. ' There have \he«n. no deaths'from influenza here since Wonday Monring. .There are fprty cases Ifere and .21 a^Morven,, j,; MASTEETON, This Day. ; Since 'the influenza outbreak! sixty{fvrp deaths have occurred. The epidemic (is'now abating. The relief fund.totals fsß2^oo. • -: .; (it .nutSKAsn.— epmul to ihi.post.) '.;:,'. .; MASTERTON, This Day. '■ ', The epidemic is now confined chiefly tto"volunteer workere-and Natives. There fweretwbdeaths during the last 24 hours,, ifcpjjh vic&ns:being.male Europeans.-