HASTY RETURN TO WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17012, 20 November 1918, Page 6

HASTY RETURN TO WORK

DANGER TO CONVALESCENTS

! NEED FOR MORE CAUTION. . Representatives of 14 block committees attended a meeting of the Citizens' Committee yesterdays and reported having got through an enormous amount of work, and that the, position was now well in hand in the city and .suburbs. . Reports from' all the committees emphasised the . serious position, which . had arisen from convalescents resuming their occupation before they were in a fit condition to do so. Most of the fresh cases claiming attention were in this group. Referring to, the matter yesterday, the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, stated .that Voluntary " workers .everywhere desired special Attention drawn. to this serious feature. Patients could not be ! too strongly urged .against a hasty return to their occupations. They :should,. remain in'their' home* for several days after conValesoßfiCe/ otherwise there. ? I ftrave danger of i Complications and relapses. ' ; The Mayer said lie had suggested to Dr. s Frengley the advisability of : issuing some official instructions to convalescent patients at the present stage, which he considered **s one of the most important connection with' efforts to combat the epidemic. If the convalescent cases would only take can, the'. epidemic "would soon 1» stamped out A recurrence of , the disisleisia the qamo oatient 'mi not only a grave persona} dinger, but accounted fbr the continual spread of the disease. .

PMOAUTIOOT AGAINST DIBIASE. BUQGESTIONB BY ; A DOCTOR 'A prominent local doctor his drawn tip a lilt of certain measures which hi considers, m the Interest of the health of the commtrtiHy, thonld engage the earnest attention of the authorities. ; ThA'-ttoiji important, h» oowidwi, U the txteuion of the aerate lyiWm. AH houses should be oounecttd, anf no bt«ild|ng -; > permit should be tamed lor any residence where no Sewerage «yit«n exist*. The distribution of the city food aupply.je alto mentioned. Milk shoold be bottled" at a lanitarj'inatitnte.and distributed ..to retail dairymen iin bottles. The present system of ; wnpjnjj 3,»bwJld be„aboliiihed. jßrijad ihouMJ be Sewered in paper wrapping, and bakehouse* rigidly inspected. Meat ihonW be eeWo tip in cotton, and not'ex* posed for tale in stall ahopa in the way it WMsnfc. , ; v ./,.': v ...'. $ Another vital, matter it a fuller system of medical : inspection in school*. . There ahonld be lnoreechool;' nnnies, ; paid an adequate salary, all, their time to be given to the daily inspection of school*. . Finally, this doctor consider* that a sanitary commission should be appointed at once to investigate in fnll the causes of, and contributing factor* to, the present epidemic, f . \- '••»,*. ..■

HOTSLB AITO BRIWEKHB.

THE EMBARGO ' EXTENDED.

[ The order requiring all hotel bars and bars of > chartered ; clubs and all breweries and spirit businesses within, ior within three miles of the boundary of, any city, borough, or Join district in the Auckland Health District, to be.closed .forth-, with and until, further notice, which wis issued on Monday by Dr.' J. P. Frengley, acting-chief health officer, was yesterday enlarged, so as to cover all.such premises within the Auckland Health District. This action' was token 'under instructions from the Minister for Public Health, the Him. Gi W, Russell, who had received information that back-country hotels were a special danger to the Maoris.

Iff THE iffWn WAIKATO.

MORE ACUTE !M AT TUAKAU

-The hopes that had been entertained that the progress of the epidemic had been 'arrested si Tuakau are unfortunately not Justified, the disease having this week reappeared -in most acute form, and five deaths hating occurred on Monday. As in many other planes; men seem to fall .vie: tims to the disease in greater numbers than wonwn bid children; and. the five fatal cases on* Monday Were those Of men. There i are -now more than thirty oases ; under. treatment in the temporary hospitals established in the publio hall and-Weileyan Church. .Two volunteer nurses from Auckland, assisted by several local ladies,'are "administering to the sufferers. The death roll at Papakufa has so far totalled, five;... and. yesterday ,47 p-rtfehts were under treatment' at the temporary hospitals in the township. ' ■ * '4W*«i the distinction ¥ 5? w f S? l tf s* ,eMt i9m & n&i in the tower Waikato. '-Only four deaths *A' ell have Recorded, two hating taken place during the .Week-tad; and one yesterday. None of the patients now under. treatment iS leprded as beinc in a serious condition. B

rOtJl MAORIS XEPOSTZ9 DEAD. Word has been deceived in Me koho that the natives at Miranda are suffenng in Jarge. numbers from the disease. dHIV-lMOni are reported to He in a, Wnons condition. Amngenwnfa tol* been made jor male work<» td set out for Mir*nda..*ith the C «M. *ary eouipment to establish a temporary hospital., -: -■ . uiar J r