NEW PLYMOUTH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 22 November 1918, Page 4

NEW PLYMOUTH.

THE DISEASE CHECKED

The New Plymouth ' returns yesterday indicated a substantial improvement in the position. The number of fresh cases reported for the day waa 161, as against 199 the day before, £08 on Tuesday, and 207 on Monday. It would appear (says the News) that I the disease is at last being checked. There were 56 new houses with in- | section, against 58 on the previous ! day. The proportion of recoveries is a satisfactory feature, the number being 65. Altogether there have been 1684 cases in New Plymouth, D 9 being serious^ and the recoveries 171. There were thirty admissions to the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday, of which 11 came from Ingle wood, nine from New Plymouth, two from Opunake, two from Tarata, and one each ■from Rahotu, Waitara, Kaimiro, Tariki, Ratapiko, and Hawera. Three Maoris were also admitted to the special Maori Hospital established at the hostelry near Kawaroa Park. This bring© the number of patients in the Hospital to 183; of which 146 are influenza. Thirty-one are pnemonic cases, most of which are very serious. Whilst the Hospital had had another trying day yesterday, Dr. Walker reported at midnight, the proportion of recoveries was cheering. He was satisfied, on analysing the figures, that the position was now well in hand in New Plymouth, and that the zenith had b-een passed here. The bad cases that were coming in from inglewood proved that mastery over the epidemic had not been gained there yet, but he hoped the organisation would overcome it by the end of the week.