NEARLY AT AN END

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 8

NEARLY AT AN END

jttHL EPIDEMIC IK OTHER,TOWNS. < (BT TBIKHUPB.—PRIM ABSOCUTIOS.) GREYMOUTH, s(h December. The town ig again normal. There w« *niy one dangwow cms reported'to^y.

Two hospitals will close about Monday, a* the main hospital can now accommodate all the cases. > The mines are working full time, and ; the eawmilling industry is normal. [ WESTPORT, sth December. In Westport the conditions have steadily improved, but to-day Burnett's Face, one of the- Westpcrt Coal Company's mining centres, sends in a bad report. Over 60 are down with influenza, apme being in a serious state. Farr's Hofei I«is been commandeered, also the kitchen of" tfei^iotel. Bedding will be sent out from WesStport m the. morning. An effort is being made to secure two'qualified nurses to take over control of the nursing arrangements. Two patients from Seddonvillo were admitted to the Westport Hospital today. ■ TIMARU, sth December. I The influenza is rapidly dying down hore, only two fresh cases occurring of milder typo than when the epidemic . first broke out. For several daye past reports from the outlying districts have indicated a marked improvement. The Mayor of Timaru, the local medical men, and .the voluntary aid committee are unanimously of opinion that the Minister of Health has made a serions mistake in reopening business so soon. November was damp and equally, and at times cold. It fa hoped that the summer weather which now seems to have set in will help to get rid of the epidemic.

PALMERSTON ST., sth December. The epidemic has apparently run its course in Palmerston North. No fresh cases are coming forward, and those suffering are nearly all convalescent. WAIMATE, This Day. ' The District Health Officer has accerled to the local request and reiro posed the closing restrictions as a defence against influenza. There have been no deaths since Monday morning. DUNEDIN, This Day. The improvement continues. The number of patients in the hospital is 212 of which 90 are convalescent. Deaths, in hospital from 11th November to 4th December number 157. . AUCKLAND, This Day. Th« epidemic is almost suppressed in Auckland city and suburbs, but is still active in the outlying districts, though less virulent.