INFLUENZA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18898, 13 January 1927, Page 9

INFLUENZA.

MINOR EPIDEMIC. IN WELLINGTON DISTRICTS. [THE PRESS Special Service.| YVKLLTXGTON. .lanuary R\ Enquiries made from local medical practitioners show that there is at present a minor epidemic of influenza in the Wellington City and suburban districts, particularly in the Ilutt Valley. This disease, although attacking children principally, is not confined to them, as adults have also been affected. The disease is definitely infectious, ns in many cases more than one member of a household has been attacked. The disease, fortunately, is of a mild nature. There have been no deaths, and there has been a marked freedom from complications. The characteristic of tho epidemic is, in addition to the usual febrile symptoms, an intense pain in the lower chest or abdomen, which may even at times simulate appendicitis, and the pain lasts for a few days. Enquiries made in regard to the general inlluenz.i position show that the serious types of the disease, pneumonic, septicemic, and fulminant, are at present, and for some weeks have been, of very low incidence. For the four weeks ending January ll)tli there were in tho whole of New Zealand only six cases and three deaths, which is the ordinary inter-epidemic, level.