INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
EIGHTEEN SCHOOLS CLOSED IN CANTERBURY.
CASES THROUGHOUT PROVINCE
(By Telegraph. Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday.
Eighteen schools in the Canterbury Education Board’s district were idle this morning as a result of the influenza outbreak. It is possible that all schools will be ordered to close. Of 280,000 people in the Canterbury and Westland health district, one authority estimated this morning that approximately 80.000 are affected, or have been affected, during the present epidemic. It was also stated that approximately 50 per cent of the pupils attending the Canterbury schools are affected. None of the secondary schools have closed because of .the epidemic. Severely depleted staffs and attend'ances, due to the prevalence of influenza, caused the closing of several more schools in the Canterbury Education Board’s district this morning, and discussions are proceeding in regard to the necessity of closing all the jschols. PREVALENT IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
Influenza, while still very prevalent in Wellington, is said to be improving, and there will be no need to close the schools.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1779, 6 July 1926, Page 5
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