MILD INFLUENZA
MANY SUFFERERS IN AUCKLAND By Telegraph Press Association AUCKLAND, April 19. Mild Influenza is very prevalent throughout the city and suburbs at present. The cases appear to be well distributed. Inquiries among a numbar of business establishments with large staffs showed that while most of them had a few employees away, the proportion as a rule was not great. The Central Police Barracks form a rather unusual exception, for of about 70 constables living there a dozen were on the sick list. Several had been sent to the Auckland Hospital not because their cases were at all serious, but simply to take advantage of the better facilities for looking after them. A large factory employing 300 hands, mostly girls, reported that 25 were away, an unusually big proportion. No pneumonic or otherwise complicated cases had been notified to him, said Dr. Hughes. Medical Officer of Health. The outbreak had been expected for some time. It was normal for the time of the year, and it was not remarkable that a number of cases were of the gastric type. The health inspectors reported that there was no unusual amount of sickness among Maoris in the district.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21325, 20 April 1939, Page 6
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197MILD INFLUENZA Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21325, 20 April 1939, Page 6
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