In Other Places.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 November 1918, Page 3

In Other Places.

BIG IMPROVEMENT IN AXJOKliAND. 13IUGHTMI LOOK-OUT IN WELLINGTON. Tiie Mayor of Auckland stated yusterday that the conditions there show a Jast improvement as compared with a week ago. The Mayor of Wellington stated last night that unquestionably an improvement had been registered in Wellington yesterday. He was greatly struck by the cheerier tone both of the par t.ents ancl; staffs( who felt that they were fighting a winning fight) at the various hospitals in the city. Many of the patients were able to raise a smlo and a cheery word.' On the other hand there were still some in a pretty bad way. He based his opinion on the genera! improvement on the fact that the number in the aggregate was less than on Saturday and Sunday, and the urgent call for doctors was less insistent than for the previous day or so. The District Health Officer, Dr. Makgill, stated yesterday that things were going well in Wellington and the indications were that the disease was being got under. There were many serious cases yet and there would be more deaths, but he was very hopeful that all would be well. ''Buck up and 'Be cheery," was his advice. "The epidemic is Jessenig. The great thing is to keep from crowding together and get out in the open."

LATEST FROM THE CITIES.

Per Press Association. Wellington, November 10. The Paparoa came from Gisborne with 14 cases of influnza. Mr Scott, the chief engineer, died. It is estimated that some 200 sol diem lvave fallen victims to the epidemic wliioh i? especially severe on returned men who have not fully .recovered and whose system .is too weak to throw off the attaek. The tram service was materially reduced to-day and stopped altogether after a while.

Auckland, November 19. Deaths in the Auckland hospitals from influenza from midnight on Monday, till 10 last night totalled 16 (compared with 18 in the previous 24 hours. The removal of convalescents ii« being expedited. Though the position is improving the Health Officer warns workers and the public against any relaxation of effort. /

"DON'T GET UP TOO SOON."

Many di'tressing oases of relapse have occurred through patients fancying tliey felt 'Igood enough to get ' up," and persuading others that they were quite all right. An instance of this folly only needs to be quoted to show how tragically regrctijrh'e such procedure is. Two convalescents in the Itelburn district (Wellington) felt that they were l quite able to leavo their beds and to go for a walk on Sunday morning. They ended their walk in an ambulance, and were in a- state of delirium when they reached the Hospital. No influenza patients should think of leaving the

warm security of the blankets for at east two days after their temperature lias returned, to normal and then, they should not expose themselves to draughts or cold winds for a day or two. The malady will not .permit of anyone "cracking nearty."

VKGJ I'.VBDES, APTLKS AND FISH

A Gazette Extraordinary issued yesterday fixes the maximum retail l prices of fish l , vegetables, and apples in Wellington districts at those ruling on November 1. It also notifies that the police are ampowered to seize and; take possession on behalf of and for the use of Hiis Majesty of all vegetables, apples and fish in the city of "Wellington, and adjacent boroughs ahd town districts.

The following authoritative statement by leading experts has been published in Dnnedin: "Statements have appeared in the publis Press that cases of pneumonic plague have recently oocurod in Duned.in. We have no reason whatever to suppose that there hare been any cases of pneumonic plague in Mew Zealand in connection with the present outbreak of influenza. The bacteriology of the world-wide epidemic is quite distinct from that of pneumonic plague, and though the condition is . one which requires careful precautionary measures, only harm can be done by panicky statements which have have no scientific foundation." Thas statement is igned by Dr. W. P. Gowland (President of the Otago Division of the British Medical Association), Dr. D. Colqnhoun (Professor of Medicine. Otago University), Dr. S. T. Champtaloup (Professor of Bacteriology and Public Health, Otago University), Dr. J. T. Bowie (Acting-Medical Superintendent, Dunedin Hospital), and Dr. E. it'nris (District Health Officer).