STAFFS DEPLETED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 9

STAFFS DEPLETED

PREVALENCE OF INFLUENZA POSITION AT AUCKLAND (Fer Press Association] AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. The prevalence of influenza in mos(, suburbs of Auckland has seriously de- p pleted the staffs of a number ot city A business houses as well as spoiling the e beginning of the term holidays for s; many children. In addition there are I numbers of children suffering from 1 whooping cough or chickenpox. Few ii of the cases of influenza are serious, ii although the doctors report that there e is a proportion of sufferers from o either pneumonic or gastric influ- e enza. ti District nurses of the St. John e Ambulance have been busy for the past c fortnight attending numerous cases of c influenza. They have a large number of children among their patients and h in some households every member has F fallen a victim to the malady. I Fewer fresh cases among adults h have been reported this week, but e there has been no reduction in the c number of children among the pa q tients. c The acute form taken by the t malady with some of the cases he was v attending was mentioned by the doctor. He said there had been some I severe pneumonic cases among both f adults and children. People of all )■ ages had been al tacked and there .was t no particularly large proportion of children affected, at least as far as his practice was concerned. He saw no signs at present of the trouble becoming less prevalent