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INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA

i I'KKUACTIONS TAKEN BY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.J I WELLINGTON, June 9. • In reply to enquiries by Mr. P. ■ Fraser, M.P., as to what.precautionary steps the Health Department were tak- ■ ing to prevent the "introduction into the Dominion of pneumonic influenza, ' now apparently spreading in Australia, Dr. Valintme, Director-General of Health, said that the department had the matter well in hand. He was in communication with the health authorities in Australia ,and was heing kept ' advised as to the situation there. In- I structions had been given to all port medical officers throughout the Dominion to take the greatest possible precautions when examining ships arriving from Australian ports. In addition to the usual examination, definite orders had been given for all passengers and crews of such ships to be subi mitted to special tests," particularly as regards temperature and other symptoms of actual: or incipient influenza. Ail as^ur-anee \v«& fjive-j) that everything humanly possible was heing' done to prevent any outbreak in New Zea.- ---■ land.

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 11

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INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 11

INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 11

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