INFLUENJA REACHES SYDNEY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14713, 19 September 1918, Page 5

INFLUENJA REACHES SYDNEY.

i ♦_ ■ . ;•_ ■'• (Australian and 1^.2. Cable 4ssocfAtlouJ l (Received Sept. 19, 12.60 plm.J ■ ■■:■'■ ■■■ •- &m)NEX, : .sepQ*l9. : ..Influenza m a severe form is prevalent throughout the Commonwealth. Public services and v private firms are handicapped Toy large^ numbers of absentee victims. . '"■'' .■''■.--. .v -.''■■•

] sjDcjctors (says the Syihiey Daily Tele-; graph) assert that the. current influenza epidemic is not the Spanish^ importation, but something 'different; .To the ..victim it probably seems a little< worse, .. |t|3ough: i*tfche inaii(. ?who : hasn't. 'contracted 1 it >:sei is iiafeliiiecf ; to think it iisnH, According to a recent nonii.er of 'the r Loiidoii 'tt'iniesy the malady spre ad through Spain" with surprising rapidity^ Then it reached London. In 1889-90 ift •;Was the Russian influenza, , In ithis.year - it ig 'th^ isamo complaint, , though m .1889^90 :~it; took" a more violent 1 -- form. >'lt teit: %\i6 patient -a- stone 'lighter m. height and utterly incapable of me nisi or '■ physical -<&xepkon'. A "month i passed •befqre life seems realty worth living again, "^t is suggested v that the- epidemic ■•iii London' has been shorn of its T terrors , by thia^sflfferer. going at one© t6 bedAvitb. ai "•liot-'water: boftle. Tire -TinwiS '»ddßv that :bed aiwli quiaiinfe niaka the- best and hiost expeditious ;■ cure. tEhe attejhlJt'to fight even th^ ;,jnulde3t form of th© epidemic will prove disastrous m the end, especially for thosjo on, the slippery: deseent\ of middle>-age. . il^uiniite'Ss, ptdbably the best preventive, but 'some physicians are «f opinion that the avoidance of crowded, jilaces is the ? <inly > sure means of -aviJiffiiKtf infection.