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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3998, 25 November 1918, Page 2

SOME EXPERT ADVICE. A little advice concerning contac. with influenza ca&es has been offered by .Dr. R. H, Makgill, Chief Health Officer. "There is a great tendency," he said, "to get an awful scare if there' has been a death. We have had a lot of cases in which no one will go near a place where somebody has died of influenza. The fact that a death has occurred need not create any special nervousness on the part of the contacts, as so much depends on the resisting power of the p,erson who gets the disease. The infection disappears very early in the disease. A convalescent who has been over the normal temperature for several days is free from infection. As with measles, it is in the early stages that the disease is infectious. I do not wish to say the same about cases where severe pneumonia has occurred. "Many people are terrified about the dead bodies, but active infection is not conveyed by them."