INFLUENZA RECEDING

Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 7

INFLUENZA RECEDING

NOTIFICATIONS FEWER.

NOT SO MANY CALLS FOR NURSES.

Tho position as revealed at the office of tho Health Department in Dunedin compares favorably with that of a week ago. For tho forty-eight hours ended-■ at noon to-day the notifications of pneumonic cases were:—Otago 6, Wallace 1. . The inquiry of tho Dunedin Hospital authorities at noon to-day disclosed these facte: that in tho preceding forty-eight (hours three pneumonic patients were admitted and none discharged; that twentynine persons suffering from influenza with pneumonia are still isolated, six of these being on the dangerously ill list; and that, including sixteen nurses who are in tho Jubilee Ward, thirty-two members of the nursing stall’ are off duty. The' deaths reported since Saturday are : One at Dunedin (a girl in the Medical School), one in tho Edcndalo district, one at Eastern Bush, and' one near Riverton. These were not new cases. j THE SCHOOLS. j The Otago Girls’ High Shool, which was | dosed the" whole of lust week, reopened, this morning, when it was found that two j teachers and forty-six girls were absent— I a marked improvement. I At tho Buys’ High School to-day no I masters were away, and the boys’ muster j was relatively very satisfactory, there being ; only sixty absent. On Friday .there were j 109 away. ! As to tho schools under the control of tho Otago Education Board, the latest to tcloso are Karitane, Wairnna, Henley, Kaka-; imi, Waitopeka, Broad Bay, Tokomairiro; (District High School, and Oamarn South, j tho latter being shut down till this day week. Anderson Bay and Kensington Schools reopened this morning. PUBLIC LIBRARY. Air M’Ewan reports that the staff is in a worse position than before, there being seven absent out of ten, wherefore it has i been found necessary to restrict the public I use of the institution to tho reference library (from 10 to 6 only) and the reading rooms. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE. Mr D. IT. Rogers, tho secretary, says that the calls for nursing are slightly: fewer, and that voiy few cases are of aserious character. Sis nurses are going the rounds. Not very much use is now , being made of the V.A.D.s The two ambu- ! lances are of great value. They covered ; 592 miles last week —a record so far as is j ascertainable.