EPIDEMIC COMMISSION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1577, 4 March 1919, Page 9

EPIDEMIC COMMISSION.

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Prett Axsoctalton. AUCKLAND, March 4. The Epidemic' Commission concluded its .Auckland sittinga to-day, and leaves for Wellington to-night, and will take evidence there on Monday. Dr. E. 11. Bj Milsom. recalled relative to the meeting of doctors convened by the British Medical Association in the early days of the outbreak, stated that the meeting was unanimously of the opinion that the disease was introduced by the Niagara. He was at the hospital the day the Niagara arrived, and he saw the patients who were landed from the vessel. They were in a dreadful way. He had never seen anything like them before. They were all cyanosed, and evidently suffering from capillary bronchitis. They were almost drowning in their own secretation. He had never seen such a type before, though two days previously he had had a case in •which a woman was suffering from eomewhat similar symptoms, but without the dreadful toxema condition found on the Niagara cases.