INFLUENZA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16035, 28 January 1920, Page 3

INFLUENZA.

{THE OUTBREAK IN AMERICA,

BIG YOTE FOE RESEARCH WORK

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, WASHINGTON, January 26.

Nearly six thousand cases of influenza and three thousand of pneumonia have been reported in, America since January Ist. Deaths numbered more than a thousand.

A Chicago message states that more than two thousand new cases are being reported daily. The number ill would probably reach 10,000 more. Business establishments are operating under curtailed hours.

The Senate passed a resolution to provide fifty thousand dollars to study the causes, prevention, and cure of influenza. Public health services and colleges having suitable research facilities will be given funds to carry on the study. It is expected that the House of Representatives will approve of the measure.

MANY ADDITIONAL CASES

NEW YORK, January 26

Ther are 2855 additional cases of influenza throughout the city, making a total of 8799 since Saturday. The Health Department is so heavily taxed that sixty appeals which came during the day were unanswered. Every available nurse throughout the city has been appealed to.

THE GREATEST PRECAUTIONS

NECESSARY,

LONDON, January 27

The Ministry of Health states that there is no present indication of influenza epidemic in Britain, but there is considerable probability of it, in view of the recrudescence in Japan and Poland, apt! urges the greatest precautions.

SOUTH ISLAND PRECAUTIONS,

CHRISTCHURCH, January 27

Owing to tlie prevalence of mild infiueza in Wellington, Auckland, and Nelson just now. Dr Chesson, District Health Officer, mentioned to a reporter to-night the possibility of the infection being brought south through, the coming of pupils to boarding schools in this island. He makes the suggestion that headmasters of boarding schools in Canterbury and Otago should cause their North Island and Nelson pupils to postpone their return to the school for the present. Perhaps in a week or so the position might be sufficiently improved, in Dr Chesson’s opinion, to make it safe to dispense with this measure of safety-