INFLUENZA AT AUCKLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 20

INFLUENZA AT AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, April 19.

Mild influenza is" prevalent throughout the city and suburbs. Cases appear to be well distributed. Inquiries among a number of business establishments with large staffs showed that, though- most of them had employees away, the proportion as a rule was not great. The central police barracks form rather an unusual exception, for of about 70 constables living there, a dozen were on the sick list. Several had been sent to the Auckland Hospital, not because their cases were at all serious, but simply to take advantage of the better facilities, for looking after them.

A factory employing 300 hands, mostly girls, reported that 25 were away, an unusually big proportion.

No penumonic or otherwise complir cated cases had been notified to/hiraj said Dr. Hughes,, Medical Officer odK] Health. The outbreak had been ex-; pected for some time and was quite? normal for the time of year, and'it wasnot remarkable that a number -of' Cases* were of the gastric type.

Health inspectors reportedthatthere was no unusual amount of sickness among Maoris in the district.'