INFLUENZA'S GRIP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 5

INFLUENZA'S GRIP.

VARIOUS OUTBREAKS.

letters from Sydney state that an «Pidemie cf the influenza known as t)XniS^ hai? some deaths i- il • £ hePe ls a fear («avs the Wellington Post) that returning soldiers have brought germg of theShfluenza thai> has raged through several countVlmt °C, T Euro P6 and Britain. Ihe Wellington District Health Offifrom port heafth.officers have indicted that they have observed any signs of severe influenza among passengers' from Australia. Of course," as the early symptoms of influenza are similar to I those of common cold, it would be diffi-I-A diagnose incipient influenza. wittLouJb a bacteriological examination L. J>r- n, ati;, as a result of reading English authorities, gives an opinion that the i general, epidemic of influenza in. England has been severe, not because the disease, is a ne^v kind, but because • the war conditions, including the diet have reduced the disease-resisting I .strength of the. public. The British Medical Journal of July 27 states that the influenza pandemic has been on the wane both in Britain and on the Gontinent The deaths in; the Old Country nave been mostly among older patients with lungs already diseased. • ? r< that outb-reaks of mfluenza had occurred in several distiiets^of- New Zealand during th« past .month. Th« township of Waione, near Dannevirke, was vei-y heavily smitten He tXGheves tlhat the diseiase is not a new iorm rrf influenza, but a recurrence of the old trouble, which has remained epidemic since it reached Nsw Zealand Jiearlv thirty' years ago.