INFLUENZA.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1433, 5 December 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA.

ISO FEAR OF EPIDEMIC. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON. Last Night. In a statement regarding the eases of influenza reported in the Dominion lately, the Acting-Chief Health Ollicer, Dr Makgill. said that during the last three weeks Hie disease has shown a slight tendency to revive, but at no time laid it taken on the form of a genuine epidemic. In certain areas the increase in catarrhal diseases was due doubtless to weather conditions. It had been shown that the heaviest return for one week throughout the whole Dominion had been 220 cases, and Unit number of cases was distributed, and did not call for any alarm. With the increase of influenza there had been a conincident increase in pneumonia. This invariably was the case in all countries in the world. The daily record of the last few days showed in all parts of the Dominion that the influenza was decreasing again, and Dr Makgill had no reason for fearing that an epidemic was pending. At the end of Against a similar increase in influenza and pneumonia had occurred, but after three weeks it had died down again. Personalis’, Dr Makgill thought it improbable we should again be visited with such an epidemic as we had last soar, as the conditions leading up to that epidemic were most exceptional. Doubtless we should have epidemics of influenza again, but they would probably be of a mild type.