INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 4

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

WELLINGTON HEALTH DISTRICT REPORT.*

(BY TELEGRAPH — .-BESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 26. During the week ending August 25 there were 32 cases of influenza reported in Wellington health district, compared with 23 in the previous week. Three were of the pneumonic type of influenza. Of the remainder one was reported as a severe case, the ! rest being classed as mild. I Dr Watt, district health officer, remarked that the population of the Wellington public health district was1 about 400,000, and the fact that 32 cases of influenza were reported in one week should not be regarded with undue alarm. The influenza being notified was *of a comparatively mild nature, but nevertheless the situation was being watched very closely.