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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 65, 11 December 1918, Page 5

At the meeting of the Kaiori Borough Council last evening the Mayor (Mr. B. G. H; Burn) referred to the epidemic and the strenuous times experienced in the borough, and paid a tribute to the very excellent work that was done by Dr. Platts Mills and Nurse King, who worked early and late in fighting tho disease. The voluntary workers were also commended for the good work done. The borough lost by doath one child and fivo adults, included in the latter being two old residents of tho borough, namely, Mr. F. V. Waters and Mr. H. Dryden. In his report presented to the Karori Borough Council last evening the borough engineer, in dealing with tho influenza epidemic, stated that an increase of sickness'appeared about November 5, and the epidemic readied its height between November 1G and 26. There were in all 183 adults stricken and 95 children, a total of 278 cases, arid there were six deaths, fivo being adults. In Makara thero were 21 adult cases and two children, and no deaths. In Beautiful Karori there were 73 cases and only one death, that of an infant. A woman, one of 30,000 British working for the Y.M.C.A., was' assigned the job of scrubbing the Eagle Hut floor. She had done little manual work in her life, but accepted the job without protest, and went down on her knees with a pail of hot water, a cloth, and a cake of soap. Soon the water in the pail was black. A man in uniform passed. The woman looked up, and osked if he would mind emptying the pail and refilling it with water. Thoro' was a theatrical pause, then this reply: "Damn it, madam, lam an officer!" This time there was no pause, but, like a Hash, the scrub-woman retorted: "Damn it, officer, I'm a duchess!" Three little-girls, .Joyce, Shela, and Betty, at Karori, gave an entertainment on behalf of their little suffering sisters llirough the influenza epidemic. They charged a silver coin for admission, and received 10s., which was handed over to tho Mayor's Epidemic Itelief Fund. Other sums received towards the fund me:—Miss Chnppel, C 2; "Sympathiser," 55."