INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 26 September 1918, Page 4

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

SHOPS, OFFICES AND CAMPS ' SUFFER.' A fairly serious form of influenza i 3 epidemic in Wellington at the present time. Rβ origin is unknown. The offices in the city aro feeling the attack, and absentees nro fairly common in tlio caso of shop and factory etaffs. Not even those, people who are out to keep peoplo merry and bright have been spared., Of the English Pierrots,. Misses Elsio llosslyn and Elsa, Langley and Messrs. Austin, Turner, and Laurence ha\ - o succumbed to the attack, and Mr. Bob. Thomas is also a sufferer. The management was compelled to abandon last night's performance, and the company will not be ablo to appear again until Saturday. Tho amount of influenza in the military camps is increasing, but practic-ally-all tho cases aro taking a mild form. The camp authorities at Treii-' thani and Featherston are taking many precautions, including the examination - of .tho throats of men who.nre sick or have been exposed to _ infection, and the admissions to hospital are swelled by the system of isolating men who aro only slightly ill in order to check tho spread of infection. No new cases of cerebrospinal meningitis have been reported, though' several men have been isolated on suspicion of being carriers. The number of now influenza cases reported at Trontham yesterday was 73. Tho number of men in hospital at this camp is about 400, mostly influenza patients. There are stated to he 119 serious cases. . . The number of men in hospital at Featherston yesterday was 155. Soma 230 men paraded sick on Tuesday, , and; 30 were taken into hospital, nearly all suffering from influenza. _ Yesterday morning 133 men paraded sick at Featherston. One cerebro-spinal (meningitis case is in hospital at Featherston. Ho was admitted last week t and-is makimj; good progress. , . ■