INFLUENZA PREVALENT. INCREASING MORTALITY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 22, 6 October 1898, Page 10

INFLUENZA PREVALENT.

INCREASING MORTALITY.

Official statistics show that considerably over one death per day from influenza is taking place in N.S.W. alone, and that it is equally in evidence in the sister colonies our con temporaries there disclose. Deaths from influenza have, and are playing no small part in swelling the mortality list. Very frequently these deaths are in the first place due to carelessness, for the primary cause of influenza is cold in the chest and lungs. If these simple ailments were attended to in time the trouble would possibly end there ; but cold in the head and lungs, unless carefully w,.tehed, brings on fever and debility, fever and debility lead to prostration and heart disease, and prostration and heart disease lead to — death. No wonder is it that at bo many inquest^lately the coroner's verdict has been ' Death resultant from influenza.' Having explained the evil after-effects of this dangerous ailment, we have now to chronicle their cure. Mr. Tate, of ' Ithica Cottage,' Illawarra Road, Marrickville, will tell us :—: — ' Influenza,' says Mr. Tate, ' was the malady with which I had to btruggle. Prior to this I had never experience'! sickness at any time in my life. But, after thirty years' immunity from trouble influenza gripped me pretty tightly.' Without warning I suddenly became ill. I always had a first-class appetite ; it left me altogether. Positively I could eat nothing at all. Heavy headaches attached me, and they continued to increase in violence. A spasm shot across my chest, and an overpowering weight oppressed me there. I felt a sickening contraction of the skin, and an ominous gathering of phlegmatic matter that checked free respiration. My whole chest, once firm and sound, became sore, tender and irritable I found myself unable to sleep, whilst on top of all these strange and unaccountable sensations came a sharp and persistent cough that sucked up all my strength and stirred the phlegm, but failed to move it. Dull, heavy, restless, faint and aching, I went to work and got through somehow. How I got through, and how I felt afterwards, you can imagine ; I — can remember. ' " Take a few boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People " said a friend, and you'll be saved.' " '

I did so, and after a few boxes had been taken, 1 was, honestly completely cared. I kept on taking them a little longer, just to make doubly sure, but there was no necessity. Yes,' he suid deliberatingly, ' the marvel has been quicker than ever I had anticipated Influenza, headaches, sleeplessness, want of appetite, listlessness' racking cough, chest pains, weakness and phlegm, all disappeared as it under a magician's wand. I am as right, as fresh, as healthy and as high-spirited as I ever was in my life.' What stronger testimony could be show ? Thousands of sufferers in all parts of the world have been cured of measles influenza, rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, severe biliousness, liver and kidney troubles, anjemia, nervous prostration, indigestion jaundice, sleeplessness, pleurisy, lumbago, eczema, skin troubles pimples, St. Vitus' dance, vital ailments, paralysis, locomotor ataxy debility, etc., etc., by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People Sold by chemists and storekeepers, and by the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, NZ. Price— six boxes, sixteen and sixpence ; one box, three shillings. This includes postage. See that the lull name— Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People is printed m red on the white outside wrapper. **

am -v v ' Gawne ' of Du nedin (says the Southland Times of April 13 ■i V' x? JUBt been on a visit t0 Inv ercargill to push business a lttle. JSot that it wants much canvassing, for since he commenced the manufacture of his Worcestershire Sauce, the demand has kept pace with his capacity to supply it. He makes a really good thinsindistinguishable from the famous Lea and Perrin's, which he places upon one's table at a much lower price, and trusts to that ta secure a steadily growing trade. Those who have not yet tried the colonial article should put their prejudice aside for a time and test the question with a bottle or two.— .% 4 The bigareat trader in the world is said to be Philip D Armour Chicago's richest citm-n. He is also one of the greatest manufacturers. In this capacity alone he employs 12,000 persons pays fl.-iUCOOO yearly in wages, owns 4,000 railway cars which are used in transpomng his goods, and has 700 or 800 horses to haul his waggons. Fifty or sixty thousand persons receive direct support irom the wages paid in his meat-packing bubiness alone if we estimate families on the census basis. He owns a greater number of grain elevators than any other individual in either hemisphere • he is the proprietor of a glue factory which turns out a product of 7,000,000 tons a year, and he is actively interested in an important railway enterprise. * ul