INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5000, 15 October 1918, Page 5

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

IMPROVED SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. 1600 DEATHS IN LONDON IN SEVEN WEEKS. United Press Association— Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Oablfe Asaoaiation CAPETOWN. October 13. The situation, as far as deaths from influenza’are concerned, has decidedly improved. It is hoped that the hack of the epidemic has been broken locally. The burials yesterday totalled four hundred. The bodies of colored people are removed in waggon loads. One hundred and' fifty deaths were reported to-day at Kimberley. The total deaths are now' two- thousand. Bloemfontein reports over 2000 oases but the results are hot yet serious. . . Johannesburg has opened a special hospital. The business hours have been curtailed and the schools closed. LONDON, October 13. There have been sixteen hundred deaths in London from influenza in seven weeks. SICKNESS^ON OVERSEA SHIP. PROTEST AGAINST BERTHING OF THE VESSEL. Press Association Telegram WELLINGTON, October 14. ’The following telegram reached the Minister for Public Health yesterday from the Secretary of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ -Union: lhe Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union emphatically protests against the berthing of an overseas ship at the Oueen’s wharf thereby incurring o-rave risks of infection of the popula- & J Auckland city and the o-hota Dominion. We consider that in tlie interest), of the nublio in general this re£ should have been placed; rn SisC "IS’ 1 AS 3 Health You? received. In reply I beg to say that all the necessary precautions were taken. health officer was the vessel until i was whenumber of. deaths (>f ther or not the illTiesh oirp'idv simple influenza such as. was already. prevalent in the Do—replies received wer| “ o fromhe cleared as the o quarantine would not nave justified.”