LOCAL REPORT SATISFACTORY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 6

LOCAL REPORT SATISFACTORY

Colds, which appear to be very prevalent in Wellington at the present time, are evidently of a milder type than those concerning which reports are being made in the South, as the District Health Office to-day supplied information which shows a very satisfactory state of health in the Wellington riistrict. From noon on Monday until noon to-day no cases-of pneumonic influenza had been notified, while only four cases of diphtheria were reported. That position, as Jar as both diseases are concerned, is an improvement upon that which was shown by the reports for last week. There is, however, a good deal of. influenza about, perhaps more than is usually the case at this time of the year,"but it is in a mild form, and there is no cause for alarm a-, far as .■Wellington is concerned. People, it is suggested, should take care just now while the influenza is prevalent. At die meeting of- the Education Board this, morning, Mr. A. J. White asked if there was any report of the attendance officer as to the prevailing epidemic of sickness. "I believe," he said, that in some schools a very large proportion of the- children are absent. In r *nnm «ne, hoo] ' out of an -i^ragP ot dUO, 63 children are away. I think we should be made aware of the true facts of the case. r> The board decided to inquire into the position