PNEUMONIC INFLUENZA
FIVE CASES FOR WEEK END. DEATH AT PUKEKOHE (By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. Five fresh cases of pneumonic influenza were reported to the Auckland Health Department during the weekend. They occurred in the city, at Te Kauwhata, Rotorua, Hamilton, and Pukekohe. The case at the last-men-tioned place proved fatal. This makes a total of 27 crises and l 6 deaths for the month of July. CHILDREN AND PICTURE SHOWS. ACTION IN .CANTERBURY. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Monday. At the’last meeting of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association it was\ decided to write to the Canterbury Board of Education asking whether children of school age could be prohibited from attending the picture shows. The letter was forwarded to the medical officer of health (Dr T. Flecher Telford) who has replied stating that he has not the power to close the picture shows or prohibit any public gathering. This power would have to be vestedf in him by the Minister of Health, and would not be done unless, there was a serious epidemic. He doubted whether the closing of the picture shows would afford any great protection from the disease, as the children would congregate in the open spaces in the daytime, where the risk of infection Would be just as great.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1782, 13 July 1926, Page 5
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