INFLUENZA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 June 1923, Page 5

INFLUENZA

OUTBREAK IN AUSTRALIA

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGffI . MELBOURNE, June 7. It is now stated there are thirtee s cases of pneumonic influenza in th i Melbourne hospital. Medical author: ■ ties take a grave view of the positior • but are most guarded in their state ! merits in order to avoid creating i scare. SYDNEY, June 7. j Influenza of a mild type is preva lent in Sydney and Melbourne. Th medical authorities deprecate alarmis statements regarding the influenza epi demic, and declare it is the ordinary . type usually prevalent in winter. Ii some cases pneumonia intervened, bu no cases of a pneumonic character an officially reported.