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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 4

HOW TO AVOID INFLUENZA Dr Cameron, tho medical officer oi' health for Deeds, who has made a special study of influenza, has issued handbills containing a number of precautions against the disease. Here are some extracts from tho document: — It is, desirable that porsous should refrain from exposing themselves to tho risk of infection from others. That they should not visit infected houses. That any of their employees who may be suffering from influenza should remain at homo till all risk of infection is past. . ■ It is also desirable that on (he first symptoms of attack all infected persons should bo to bod, and remain there, between blankets, in a well-ventilated apartment. The first symptoms of the disease are soon over, and the patient is then apt to think himself quite well. But a relapse is often more serious than tho first attack. It is necessary not only that infected persons should keep to the house, but that they should confine themselves entirely to one well-ventilated and wellaired room. Tho ventilation of this apartment ought to ho from the outside, not from tho rest of the house. Westmorland is tho most thinly populated English county. European nations, including Groat Bri tain, are pouring out J08OO;oOO a day upon armies and navies. Brent Tor, a curious jogged hill to the west of Dartmoor, and crowned with an ancient church, is said to ho tho most recently extinct of England’s many extinet volcanoes. In Tartftry onions, leeks and garlic are regarded ns perfumes. A Tartar lady will make herself agreeable by rnbbing a piece of freshly-cut onion on her hands and over her countenance. To try one prisoner, a deaf-and-dumb man, who pleaded guilty, twenty-si* justices. nineteen: grand jurymen, and thirty-two common jurymen were summoned at Carnarvon Quarter Sessions, many of them haying to travel a long distance by train.