INFLUENZA.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 2 May 1919, Page 4

INFLUENZA.

STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERfc ! IN SYDNEY. (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.) •Sydney, May 1. Tho dissatisfaction of the stranded New Zcalandcrs is increased by what is claimed to be tho discrimination in allowing soldiers and munition workers to return, while they arc debarred. Those who aro strandod urge that they should bo allowed to proceed to New Zealand in. the Atua, which is expected to sail on Tuesday. DECREASE IN SYDNEY CASES. An official medical report regards the influenza position as much easier. .I'ho real improvement is greater than is shown by the figures. There is a substantial doeroaso in tho number of casus and deaths.

it is anticipated that by tho end of tho present week the Medical Research Comrhitteo will be reporting ou tho;ott'octs of calcium lactato and perchlorido of mercury treatments. They havo found no evidence that patients taking calcium lactate; havo'benefited moro than-others--who did not. All patients have boon given an abundant supply of milk, which is rich in calcium, therefore, iio extra calcium is needed.

There is no evidence to justify the committee in recommending the uso of perchlorido of mercury, BAD IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, May 1. Tho epidemic is securing a firm grip iv South Australia. Threo hundred cases are in hospitals; which are overcrowded. Schools have boen closed.