COMBATING INFLUENZA.
LESSONS FROM SYDNEY.
VALUE OF INOCULATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.80 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 3.
The report of the* Public Health Department on last year's influenza, epidemic shows the percentage of deaths of those attacked to be 1.3. Early treatment and confinement to bed and absolute rest were the most potent factors in combating the disease. Among preventive measures inoculation was most valuable and mitigated the progress of the disease to a large extent. Among those inoculated three times the mortality rate at'the" hospitals was just one-hall that of those who were not inoculated. Those inoculated once or twice benefited, ; but not ■to the same extent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17461, 4 May 1920, Page 5
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