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
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19360826.2.82
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 9
Word Count
256STAFFS DEPLETED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 9
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.