PUBLIC HEALTH SITUATION NORMAL.
DEPARTMENT TAKES PRECAUTIONS AGAINST POSSIBLE OUTBREAKS. (Special to the “ Star.”) WELLINGTON, June 22. j The cases of influenza now being dealt with by the Department of Public Health are those of an ordinary kind common to this time of the year. Cases of a mild type have been occurring for the past six weeks in all parts of the Dominion. Bacteriologists in the .four centres have reported that the examination of specimens show that so far the germ involved is of the ordinaty type, and that the number of pneumonic and fatal cases occurring up to the present is no greater than in any of the ordinary influenza visitations prior to the great outburst in 1918; but the Department hss takeil the precaution of warning local authorities and Hospital Boards to be in readiness in case they should ha\*e increased work thrown upon them in connection with an influenza outbreak. \ Fortunately up to the present there has been no need to make special provision. Otherwise the epidemic situation is normal. There is the usual , type of diphtheria which always oc- | curs in the late autumn and the early winter throughout the country, hut nothing more than usual. There is also : some scarlet fever, htn- of a_
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17879, 22 June 1926, Page 11
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