INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 102, 24 January 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA

NUMBER OF CASES IN MELBOURNE j

TWO DEATHS IN QUARANTINE | IN SYDNEY I

By Telegraph—press. Association—Copyright I

Melbourne, January ;23.i: Twelve cases of pneumonic influenza have been admitted >to a, Melbourne hospital. Three of them have eriftetl fatally.—Press Assn. ;

(Rec. January 23,. 10.20.p.m.)

: 'Melbourne, January 23. 1 Another influenza patient has died at the hospital. More cases are reported. Solne are receiving homo treatment.—Press .Assn. . . , ■:■-:. ■ . ..Sydney, January :23. Two deaths have oqcurrediirquaraatine, from , tuberculosis, following upon, influenza.—Press Assn. , *■~'.., CASES ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL IN NOVEMBER. : ; . tßec. January 23, 8.55.;p.in.) , , Melbourne, January 23., ; The superintendent of ~the ; Melbourne Hospital ■ states' that -cases'- of- 1 influenzal pneumonia were admitted'to the institution as eai'ly -as the -end/of November. During the past three .flays several similar, though more serious,, cases have been admitted. Now .there •are 27 cases in :the hospital, arid they are undoubtedly influenzal .pneumonia^ l apparently of .an epidemic. 'character. One of the patients had been engaged in unloading a boat from .New Zealand. ■ . ■••;..-

The chairman oftho'Board of Health saidhe was not prepared to admit that it was Spanish influenza or of an.ovfeyseas type. Sq.far only the pneumonia and not the influenza, rgorm had been, discovered.—Press Assn. jtn

VICTORIA MAY BE DECLARED 'AN X ' ; * ' INMITIOUSJTATE ■ .q (J « STOPPAGE OF INTER-STATE^ TRAFFIC PROVIDED SOU. ''.w ■ (R«c. January 23, 10.20 p.m.)^| 'J Sydney, January 2jW . A special Cabinet meeting decide&'to ask the Federal "Government toiUrrnft into immediate operation, if- ihfluenia' has got into Victoria, a .FedoialTand State agreement in Novmnber providiug that Victoria ■be'declaro/iyaai infected State; that- .all land traffic) with tho exception-of goods andiTraibn be suspended between' • Vict oria'o.-acid other States, and 'that iintep-Statensei traffic be permitted only trader iswthe strictest quarantine—Press Alssa.T>h!!» ■ i ■ ___i_ " : . ■.■■lα" • PRECAUTIONS , IN. SYDlsffiT^j : (Rec. January:23, '8.55 p.m,).,| ;: ,u Sydney, January fS3.iw The Cabinet :has decided, -immieViiof the reported": influenza. ift.i'Melbouitnai, "to advise all inoculation 'depobsnto Jjzfefc into full operation Ti"ith all tltPi-mholiL'-nery that had been preparedi: -iijAll other precautions that 'may sidered necessary will be rfcaken. li -'Ei!e*S 'Assn. .'.■••• •'• -:■■'" — jjniWir/d