INFLUENZA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7566, 12 May 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA.

POSITION IN AUSTRALIA,

Received 11.46 p.m.. May 11. SYDNEY,, May 11. For the resumption of racing and the opening of the football season yestei*day there were good attendances, despite the prevalenc of the influenza. Th position in the metropolitan ancf country districts, both of New South Wales and Victoria, is steadily improving. There is reason to believe that the top of the wave has passed, and that infectivity and virulence are declining. A South Australian report shows that the episode is gaining ground, and that; there is an increasing number of deaths, though the death-rate h not large.

Queensland reports indicate that since the first outbreak it has been steadily spreading. There are many new cases in Brisbane."

ANOTHER DEATH AMONG THfE MANUKA'S CREW.

WELLINGTON, May 10.

The second death among the members of the crew of the Manuka ..occurred on Thursday night, when John Sulivan, aged 48,%a single man, who signed on as a fireman at Sydney, died at the quarantine station on Somes Island from the effects of influenza.

No further cases of influenza have occurred on the steamer Komata. The vessel, after being thoroughly fumigated, was taken out into the stream yesterday, prepartory to sailing to-day ftir Westport. -

The Manuka (which has been quarantined since 28th April) was permitted to berth this morning), but tht watersiders will not work the vessel's cargo until Monday.

It is reported that there are two more serious cases of influenza among the Manuka's crew on Somes Island.