VARIOUS NORTHERN ACCOUNTS.

Northern Advocate, 7 December 1918, Page 2

VARIOUS NORTHERN ACCOUNTS.

K*poiUi iroiii M&ngonui and Hokianga are to the effect that in those areas the worst is over, and that the position ia rapidly improving. In the Bay of Islands County there are still v great number of cases. It is impossible at present to get complete returns, but the following; summary is somewhere near the mark. In Fapuhi district there have been about fifty cases, and four of these, all Europeans, were fatal. In Motatau, Opahi district, most of the cases have reached the convalescent stage. Practically the whole population, about I f>o, went down, and 30 died. The Ngapipitoa district, like Motatau, had the disease in a virulent form. In the Oromahoe native settlement 100 Maoris were ill, and there were 10 deaths. Several deaths have occurred among the Maoris at Waimate .North, out of about 40 cases so far reported. There are 43 cases reported at the Maori settlement of -N T ffa\7ha, and four have died. At Kaikohe there are 30 cases still in the European hospital, and 23 in a native nospital, some of them being convalescents. Two deaths have occurred there. At the native settlement it Waiomai, 50 cases have been treated, seven ending: fatally. Uhere have been two deaths at Taumarere, I both Maoris, out of 22 cases reported. At Karetu, out of 11 eases, all Maoris, two died. A number of cases are reported from Purerua and other native settlements around the foreshore of the Bay of Islands, and eight deaths are reported to have taken place. In Kawakawa and Waipuna 1C whites and nine natives have died.

According to advices from Maungaturoto, an erroneous impression of the state of affairs in that district has been created by the telegram sent to the Prime Minister by Mr T. Coates on Tuesday. So far only one death, that of Mr Coates's son, has occurred. There are about 13 patients, all of whom are progressing satisfactorily. Dr. Sands and several nurses are in attendance. In addition to Mrs Finlayson's residence, the public school has been fitted up as a hospital, and the epidemic is well in hand.