INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 135, 3 March 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

RESTRICTIONS IN NEW SOUTH WALES REMOVED SPORTS MEETINGS RESUMED Sydney, March 1. Church services will be permitted to resume on 'Sunday. The compulsory wearing of masks is suspended. , Practically all the restrictions have been lifted. .The hotels will reopen on Monday and the'theatres and picture shows on Wednesday.—Press Assn. • Melbourne, March 1. Four additional deaths from influenza are reported—Press Assn. (R«c. March 2, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney,' March 2. Sporting meetings were largely resumed yesterday, and were well attended. One death from influenza was reported in Sydney and seven in MelbournePress Assn.' DISEASE SPREADING" THROUGHOUT UNITED KINGDOM DEATH-RATE TREBLED IN ALL LARGE TOWNS. (Rfic. March 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 26. Fresh outbreaks of influenza are constantly reported in ail parts of the United Kingdom. The death-rate has trebled in all the large towns. The virulence of the disease, in London is unabated. There is a great number of unbulanee cases.—United Service. THE'CAUSATIVE germ i DISCOVERY REPORTED. . (Rec. March 3, 0.30 a.m.) ' London, March 1. A conference of medical experts discussed the prevention of influenza, but greatly dixered regarding the measures j to be adopted. ,' It is generally considered that much research is needed. It is reported that three Army doctors, including Captain Connor, of Australia, have discovered the causative germ. One of the three, Major Gibson, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, himself caught the influenza, and died a victim of his own mesearch — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.