INFLUENZA PATIENTS.
CASES FROM. MAUI POMARE. SEVEN WORKMEN AFFECTED. MEN EMPLOYED ON STEAMER. Seven men engaged in preparing the steamer Maui Pomare for sea have bocome the victims of influenza. Fivo engineers and electricians employed by a city firm became ill after working on the steamer during the last ten days. They had been overhauling the refrigerating plant and were working almost continuously below deck. Two shipwrights making alterations in tho hold have also contracted the disease. The seven men are now confined to their homes.
Tho steamer has been fumigated since the crow were removed to the temporary isolation hospital established at "Cintra, but the workmen who havo now contracted influenza were on board before this precautionary step was taken. As influenza is not a notifiable disease the cases have not been reported to the Health Department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20228, 12 April 1929, Page 12
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