INFLUENZA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 6

INFLUENZA

NIAGARA TO BERTH TO-DAY

STEAMERS QUARANTINED AT LYTTELTON By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, April 12. Tho Niagara will be released from quarantine and berthed at tht-- Auckland Wharf at G p.m. on Monday. Through lasseiigers not on lite sick list will bo landed in the city on Monday morning. The' case- on thu Raknnoa has not developed influenza. The vessel berthed to-dav. ■ "-,,-,. The Port Ktenhen will leave for Cusborne at noon.' Her chief officer, at j;otuihi. is convalescent POSITION SATISFACTORY. By TQjeeraph-I'ras* Association. Auckland, April 13. The position in regard to tho influenza eases from the Niagara continues to be satisfactory. No fresh cases have so far been reported over the week-end, and no deaths have occurred'. CASE IN~WELLINGTON RIVERINA QUARANTINED A diagnosis of the symptoms presented in- the cuse of the steward who was taken from the Australian passenger steamer Riverina on Priday afternoon has been made. It was stated last evening that he was suffering from influenza. Consequent upon this latest development the Public Health authorities ordered that the ship be moved from- the Queen's Wharf to an anchoraso in the quarantine area.

Steps were taken yesterday to place the ship under strict supervision while she remained alongside the wharf. Arrangements could not be completed last evening for the 'Riverina to leave for the stream, but it is understood that she wiil take up her anchorage first thing this morning. Inquiry made at tho. Public Hospital where the man was taken for observation elicited the report last night that his condition was not dangerous, but that it was a severe attack.

The work of discharging the inward cargo of the Riverina was not resumed by tho waterside workers on Saturday morning. The men concerned held a meeting to discuss what attitude they should take up with regard to unloading the" ship, and when the facts had- been explained to them the matter was put to the ballot. The voting was against a resumption of work until the doctors who had the steward under observation made a definite statement as to his condition. This was on Saturday morning, and the nntient.'s complaint had then not developed sufficiently for the Hospital to state exactly what was ailing him.

Mr. C. W. Jones, general manager in New- Zealand for Huddart-Porker, Ltd., ptated last .nurht that the sailing of (he Riverina for Sydney, fixed for to-morrow afternoon, had been cancelled. The Pnhlic Health authorities had no information regarding this matter last evening. CASES FROM SOUTHERN STEAMERS "FIVE SEAMEN RENT TO QUAIL ISLAND.; By Telegraph—Press Association Christchurch, April 12. Four seamen from the steamer Koro-n-.iko. and one from the Tanvwera havo been removed to Quail Island, where a ward isbeing furnished to accommodate the patients. The seamen in question are suffering from a mild form of influenza. In tiie meantime both the vessels have been quarantined for an addiHcnal forty eight hours. 58 DEATHS IN SYDNEY IN TWO DAYS (Rec. April 13, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, April 13. .Influenza continues to increase its hold both in the city and'the. country. There were thirty-one. and twenty-seven deaths respectively for the last two days in the city. In Melbourne the disease retains its strong hold, though the deathrate is lower than in the .first visitation. In Adelaide there is a steady increase in the patients, and several deaths havo oc< curred. In Queensland ,up to Saturday the cases were confined to visiting vessels, but on Saturday a case was reported at Warwick.—Press Assn.

HEAVY LOSS CAUSED BY EPIDEMIC DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT GIVEN FOR RESEARCH. (Rcc. April 12, 5.5 p.m.) • London, April 9. Sir Kingsley Wood, at the National Health Conference,' snid that influeuM involved a loss of .£120,000,000, whereas the Government gave only for re< search.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DOCTOR'S STATEMENT DISCREDITED THE WHOLESOMENESS OP FROZEN MEAT.. (Roc. April 13, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 10. "The Times" states that the Food Ministry diaered its a widely published statement by a Wimbwne doctor that frozen meat was likely to cause abdominal influenza. The paper points out thai frozen meat lias been used in Britain for thirty-five. years, and it lias successfully undergone numerous analytical tests.— "The Times."