CASES OF INFLUENZA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20977, 14 September 1931, Page 8

CASES OF INFLUENZA.

NO NEED OF APPREHENSION. PRECAUTIONS EMPHASISED. The epidemic of influenza is still disorganising commercial and private life in Auckland, but, in the opinion of Dr. T. J. Hughes, district medical officer of health, it is not one to cause public apprehension if the victims will take ordinary precautions. "In mild cases, the patient should go to bed immediately and stay there, for at least two days after the temperature has become normal," Dr. Hughes said "If that is done, the patient need fear nothing, but when a more serious type is encountered it should be taken seriously and full attention given the patient. Isolation is desirable and visiting should be avoided." Dr. Hughes said that reports of six deaths in which influenza of the pneumonic type was concerned had been received. The cases had been distributed over five suburbs, four of the victims being elderly people, one a young man, and the other a boy of 11. Three were really August cases, as the illness had been contracted last month. Dr. Hughes again emphasised the need for the exercise of care in the convalescent stages. He added that so far as he could gather from medical men in private practice there was little movement cither way in the incidence of the epidemic. Tho latest report from the Auckland Hospital i 3 that 44 nurses and two doctors are off duty owing to influenza.