INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 114, 7 February 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA

STRINGENT TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS GREAT INCREASE IN CASES IN MELBOURNE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, February 6... The Commonwealth Government has stopped the transcontinental , railway. The Government has also renonneed the November health agreement, and has gazetted, new rules to govern inter-State traffic, providing that no person may travel by sea without a special permit issued the day before the journey, and after medical inspection, and all passengers are required to report under surveillance for three days after disembarkation. ■ '' . There have been nine more deaths, and 243 new case's of influenza are reported. —Press Assn. .' Sydney, February 6. Mr. W. A. Watt, Acting Federal Prime Minister, has been in communication with Mr. W. E. Fuller, asking for unrestricted, traffic between New South Wales and Victoria, as agreed upon at the Health Conference in November. This Mr. Fuller refused, stating that by the neglect of Victoria to ui»e due diligence New South Wales became an infected State. The Government has issued a proclamation declaring that all ships entering a port of New .South Wales are subject to quarantine. The entry of residents of South Australia into New South Wales is prohibited, as South Australia is an infected area. Nine new cases were reported to-day.— Pd'ess Assn. Adelaide, February 6. Two cases of influenza are reported from -twenty miles outside the city.— Press Assn. MELBOURNE HOSPITAL CONGESTED EACE MEETINGS ENTIRELY PROHIBITED. ■ . (Rec. February 6, 10.35 p.m.) Melbourne, February 6. 'The hospital is congested and unable to admit further cases. The ambulances are insufficient'to cope with the demand. Race meetings have been entirely, prohibited. * • ■ To date, there have been ?9 deaths and 1746 cases have been reported.—Press Assn. .■..■■■■ . . (Rec. .February 6, 10.55 p.m.) Sydney, February 6. Several ..suspected coses of influenza were reported to-day. There was one death at Bulli, and 6ix cases on board inter-Stafce steamers.—Press Assn. MEjMCAL INVESTKATJONS IN LONDON ■ VIRUS OF SEVERAL DISEASES , DISCOVERED. (Rec. February' 6, 7.25 p.m.) London, February 5. High army medical authorities, Sir John Bradford and Captains. E. F. Basford and J. A. Wilson, have reported the discovery of the virus of nephritis, trench fever, and influenza ae a minute globular cell, varying in size qnd activities, and passing through the finest filters. It is understood that the investigations also resulted in the isolation .of the virus of mumps, measles, and typhus—''The Times." ,