WEST END SCHOOL CLOSED.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2715, 7 August 1923, Page 5

WEST END SCHOOL CLOSED.

OTHERS MAY FOLLOW SUIT, ’FLU GERMS CLAIM MORE VICTIMS. AN EX-MAYOR'S VIEWS, With even his fellow scribes about him succumbing to the “’flu-bug, <t “ Times " reporter made inquiries yesterday in regard to the position locally. The hospital authorities, who view the position with no concern, have to report only two cases under their care. The domain of the “ bug ’ . must not, however, be judged by this, as there are many people in tho town who have contracted a form of the disease*, which, whilo incapacitating them’for some days, yet is not the ailment proper. It might, indeed, bd placed in the same category as that which exists In New Plymouth, where it is stated that a mild type of influenza is prevalent, though nothing in the nature of an epidemic is abroad. Tho medical superintendent of tho public hospital there told a ‘ Daily News ” reporter that the malady is really a type of feverish cold. Four or live hospital nursese are off duty temporarily, but the hospital admis-* sions average is lower at present than at the same time last year. At the West End School on Friday, 116 pupils and four teachers were absent.