AUSTRALIA'S PRECAUTIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17960, 29 November 1918, Page 6

AUSTRALIA'S PRECAUTIONS.

DRASTIC MEASURES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received November 28, 8.5 p.m.) ;. MELBOURNE, November 28. The conference of the Health Authorities of all the States recommended that uppn the notification of a case of influenza in the Commonwealth tho State concerned should be declared an infected area, and ah l traffic with it should be suspended until the disease breaks out in a neighbouring State, when the traffic may be resumed with the infected State, subject to strict quarantine measures. Upon the issue of such a proclamation the Commonwealth will take over complete control of all inter-Stato traffic on landjind sea, and close all places of public resort. (Received November 28, 9.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, November. 28. The deaths at the quarantine station now total twenty-sis. A large number of medical officers and soldiers are ill, including fifty Italian reservists. Tho Riverina has been _ released and her troops disembarked. No extension of the epidemic is reported outside the quarantine area.