VACCINE FOR INFLUENZA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 24, 23 October 1918, Page 4

VACCINE FOR INFLUENZA

INTERESTING CONTROVERSY AT CAPE TOWN.

(Rec. October 22, 7.55 p.m.) Capo Town, October 21. The Director of the South African Institute of Medical Research, in a report on the. use of vaccine prophylaxis in connection with influenza, says it would not be justifiable in tho present state of knowledge to claim that any bacterial vnccino would confer • any ■ protection against epidemic influenza. It is possible that doses of comprehensive "Lister's Eight Group" (tho name by which the late Lord Lister's method of administering vaccine is known to medical science) might be useful in preventing pneumonia complications. On the other hand, the opinion of ths Government Bacteriologist and practitioners generally is that vaccines modify an attack, lessen tho incidence nnd severity of pneumonic complications, and reduce mortality. The Director of Medical Services in the Defence Forces states that ho Tins had under close observation many thousands of cases. Not one who underwent a second inoculation contracted the disease, and there was only one case where the patient who had been once inoculated had died of pneumonia. It was the emphatic opinion of all the military doctore that the value of vaccine was in-controvertible—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STRICKEN VESSEL ARRIVES AT BROOME. Melbourno, October 22. A steamer has arrived ,-at Broome (Western Australia) with an epidemic of influenza among the passengers and crew. There are many severe cases.—Press Assn. CLEAN SWEEP OP LW.W. PESTS PUBLIC-SPIRITED CITIZENS IN QUEENSLAND TOWN. Brisbane, October 22. Citizens at Hughenden have driven all the members' of tho I.W.W. and their aympathifiers- from the iown.— Press Assn. [Hughenden is the centro of a fine pastoral district 236 miles from Townsville.l