MEDICAL STUDENTS' AID

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17006, 13 November 1918, Page 8

MEDICAL STUDENTS' AID

FOUR. FOR WORK IN COUNTRY,

TOWNS IN DESPERATE STRAITS.

. The allocation of the six senior medical students who were despatched to Auckland from Dunedin yesterday morning, has been tentatively arranged. Dr. J. **• Frenglev, acting-chief health officer, stated last evening that one student would be placed at Ohakune, 0110 at Huntly, >ne at Waihi, and one at Waiuku, and the remaining two would come on to Auckland. Re'erring to conditions at Ohakune, Dr. Frengley said he had been advised that both doctors, both nurses, and both chemists in the town ire down with the disease, and no medical aid is available. The best that could be done was to allocate one of the medical students from Dunedin to the town. The student for Wailu would replace a doctor sent to that town from Auckland, who had contracted the disease. The local doctor at Waiuku was in urgent need of assistance. Referring to country conditions generally, Dr. Frengley said that #untry patients were not nearly so favourably eltuated as those in the city. People who were agitated becauso they could not be quickly provided with doctors and nurses should bear in mind that conditions in this respect, in Auckland, bad as they were, were incomparably better than in many Of the country districts. He had been in receipt of daily reports during the past week from almost every town in ►Auckland Province, and in spite of ail dliacnlties it was very encouraging to all who were combating the epidemic, and especially to officers of his Department, to know that each town, large and small, is vieing with its neighbours as to which can do the best for it« sufferers. HELP FOR AUCKLAND. MEDICAL STUDENTS COMING. [BY TEtEOBiPH—OWS COKtBSFOKDSNT.] DtJNEDIN, Tue«dsy. , The first batch of six senior students from the Otago Medical Bchool left for Auckland this morning at the Instance of the Public Health Department, in con- j nection with the epidemic.

rflNO COUNTRY DISTRICTS, SERIOUS IK SOME CENTRES. [BT TBMQWPH.—OWN COBRBSPONDBctJ TB lUITI, Tuesday. There are a number of mild case* of influenza here. At Mangapeehi the epidemic is serious, and the nail has been equipped as a hospital and 20 cases have been admitted. School teachers have been stmt from here to nurse patients. The epidemic is also serious at Waimiha and Taumarunui. 7 SIXTY OASES AT PAEBOA. [Bt TELBORArH.— CORKBBPONDKNT. ] PAEROA. Tuesday. Over sixty cases of influenza are reported in Paeroa, and there appears to be no abatement of the epidemic. So far there has been no deaths, but there are still a number of serious cases. The public school will be closed for a week.