INFLUENZA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 178, 23 April 1919, Page 7

INFLUENZA

RECENT NOTIFICATIONS MOSTLY MILD CASES The Minister of Public Health (the Hon. G. W. Russell) yesterday supplied iiKures for the notifications of influenza during tho diivs from April 11 to April 17. In all 38 cases were notified. In the Auckland district there were fourteen cases, nil of them mild except one gastric case at Ohura. In the Wellington health district there were eighteen eases —two at Eltharn, both epidemic type; six in Wellington oity, four severe and two mild: three at Pahiatun, two mild and one pneumonic. All the other -cases in the district were mild. In Canterbury district there were five cases, two of them shipping cases at Lyttelton, both pneumonic, from the steamer Kqromiko. In Otago there was one mild epidemic ca.«.o iu the Vincent Hospital district. THE QUARANTINE STATIONS ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION. Every effort is being made by the Minister of Health (the Hon. G. W. Russell) to expedite the work required to enlarge tho quarantine stations at Auckland and Wellington. "In conseciuence of the statements made at Auckland regarding tho quarantine, stations," said the Minister yesterday, "I have requested the Chief Health Officer to provide me with an immediate report as to (1) What has been done regarding the quarantine stations. (2) What arrangements have been made. (3) How long it will take to get the stations into an efficient state. (4) What increase of accommodation has been actually arranged for. "The Chief Health Officer has reported that at Motuihi the Public Works Department are pushing on with, the work. Provision is being mado for accommodation for 250 people, which will make the total capacity of the island JSO. At Somes Island arrangements have been made to get ten hutments from Featherston Camp. The District Health Officer and the District Engineer of the Public Works Department have visited the island, and have arranged where the hutments are to be placed. The Public Works Department lias been asked to push on as rapidly as possible with the work of removal. At present there is accommodation at the island for two hundred people, and tho new hutments will provide for three hundred more. As to the time that will be required, the Health Officer reports that it will take two month." to complete the works at Auckland, and one month at Wellington." NO FRESH CASES AT MOTUIHI. Br Telesraph—"itbi Association Auckland, April 22. No fresW cases of influenza nave been reported at ,the quarantine station at Motuihi, Eighty patients were discharged to-day, comprising one passenger and seven members of the Niagara's crew, who were left behind.. This leaves seventeen patients still on the island, of whom two cases are serious. PROTEST AGAINST NEW ZEALAND EMBARGO. Melbourne, April 22. Ma-. W. A. Watt, Acting Federal Prime Minister, announces that the Federal Government is protesting vigorously against the New Zealand Government's embargo on passenger traffic from Australia.—Press Assn. AUTUMN RACES POSTPONED. (Rcc. April 23, 1.20 a.m.) Sydnoy, April 22. The Australian Jockey Club has postponed its Autumn Meeting another week to May 3.—Press Assn. "