EPIDEMIC COMMISSION
MATTERS FOE- INVESTIGATION. The order of reference of the Epidemic Commission will be announced in the course of a day or two, probably tomorrow, and tlien it will be lor the comniission to make the inquiry ordered into the nature of the disease, the source from • which this country was infected, and how. the infection came here. Less interesting, bit more satisfactory from the point of view of the Government, will be that part ! of the inquiry dealiifg with tho measures taken to combat the epidemic after it was established here. The Minister of Public Health, referring to the theory of the medical men that the virulent type of influenza could not be caught except directly from an infected person, said that he hesitated to speak in opposition to the opinions of expert men, but he had a lurking suspicion that the disease could be borne by wind or wave. There had been cases, and he instanced the outbreak on the Chatham Islands, which could not be satisfactorily accounted for by the direct contact theory. There had been another case of a steamer leaving New Zealand with no signs of the disease, and on this ship the passengers developed the disease.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 6
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203EPIDEMIC COMMISSION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 6
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