INFLUENZA

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1923, Page 5

INFLUENZA

POSITION AT OAMARU. (Per Press Association.) OAM ARE, Juiy 20. Influenza in a mild form is spread '.ng here. The town schools have bec-J closed for a week. Six cases of pneumonic influenzi have been reported, with, one death. GZLRISTCHURCH REPORT. CHRISTCHURCH, Juiy 20. No fresh cases of influenza were reparte I to the Health Officer to-day. and Dr T h rd. says that the epidemic over as tan .area is concerned, and the schools could safely be opened on Monday. AUSTRALIAN DEATHS. (Received July 20 at 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Juiy 20. Four death: from j aeunioui. L.fluen- ■ two :.t Broken Hill. GENERAL NOTES. It rfvill be S’een by -.... nr In hat th< Heal i iiles h tve ordered the closing oi tie M-houls and Sunday schools on account the infj’uenzu epidemic, and that the picture shows are to be closed to all young people under 16 years of age. There are now about one hundred Millerton miners and fif;y Denniston miners down with the influenz:. C nsoquently the Buller coal oui; has been reduced 200 tons p r d/ y. Reports from Karamca state that there is no influenza of a serious nature. One child, eight years of age, a daughter of Mr Stanley Allen of Arapito, was on Wednesday brought to AA'estport for medical treatment, but was sufficiently recovered to return to her home yesterday. At Westport Deputy-Mayor Enright and Crs. Henley, Bryan, and Roche aro all confined to their homes through illness. Yesterday there were 63 out of 16S pupils on Cobden roll absent on a count of influenza, and two of the teachers were also sufferers. The influenza position at Hokitika is reported to be more s ious, there being a large number affc* ’ including some severe case?. schools there :re closed. Several sporting fixt =• ;uday in Greymouth have had to postponed on account of the cpidem. . The schools at Westport have nil been closed to minimise the spread of influenza. Dr Phillips (Christchurch) School Health Officer, who arrived in Greymouth on Thursday night, went yesterday to ’Blackball, in connection with the influenza epidemic. To-day he proceeds to Hokitika on the st me business.