INFLUENZA LOSING POWER

Evening Star, Issue 18336, 25 July 1923, Page 6

INFLUENZA LOSING POWER

BUT STILL WIDESPREAD. ONLY ONE DEATH REPORTED. Dr M’Kibbin, medical officer of health stales that for the twenty-four hours u to noon to-day tho notifications of pneu monia cases numbered ten —Otago twe Southland five, Vincent three—and n further deaths are reported. Tho .statement as to the position at 11 Dunedin Hospital is .slightly bettor t day. One pneumonic patient was a , milled during the twenty-four hours up i noeu, aiyl three were discharged. L number of patients in isolation for ino enza with pneumonia, is 'bitty, of ivlu s five arc dangerously ill.. One more dea : has taken place.—a female patien Twenty-nine members of the nursing sta are off duty.

Moniington School had to shut dow to-day.

All'the other schools in and about Dm edin are now at work again. Nine more country schools have had • close: N’gapara, Milburn, Hinahina (b yond Ralanni). Wharefoa, Mosgiel, Low, Harbor, Blacks, Papatow.ri, and Nor; Taicri. THE GENERAL POSITION. CANTERBURY HIT HARDEST. [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.'. WELLINGTON, July 24. Canterbury seems to be the worst o in regard to influenza, stated Sir Mai Pennine, Minister of Health, in the Hons to-day, when giving a statement on th position in reply to Mr Holland (Duller, Jt was mentioned by Mr Holland tin there had been 108 cases in the town o Westport, and the mining townships wer all seriously affected, with the result ina; the output'of coal was seriously interfere! with.

The Minister stated that for the week ending July 23 in Auckland there were eighteen cases of the pneumonic type; in North Auckland there had been none; in Hawke’s Bay, one; in Wanganui health district, ten'; Wellington health distric I ,’ five; in Otago health district, Hity-thfee; and in Canterbury health district, sixtytwo—making a total of 149 for the whole dominion. There had been ihniy-fivc deaths. Although the position was serious from one standpoint, it was not os bad as it had b'ccn previously.