INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
FURTHER EVIDENCE, [Pun Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 4. The Epidemic Commission concluded its Auckland sittings to-day and will leave for Wellington to-night, taking evidence there on Monday. Dr iMilson was recalled relative to a meeting of doctors, convened by tho British Medical Association in the early days of the outbreak. He stated that the meeting was unanimously of opinion that thev disease was introduced by tho Niagara. Ho was at tho hospital on tho day the Niagara arrived, and saw patients landed from tho vessel. They were in a dreadful way- Ho had never soon anything like them before. They were all oyanosed, evidently suffering from capillary bronchitis, aiid' were almost drowning in their own secretion. He had never seen such a. type before, though two days previously he had had a case in which a woman was suffering from somewhat similar symptoms, hut without the dreadful toxema condition in the Niagara cases.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12568, 4 March 1919, Page 6
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