INFLUENZA
WARNING. AGAINST -PANIC. By TelegraDh--Press- Aesociation-CoDi'l'iftllt (Rec. April 24,. 8.5 p.m.) Molfaournoj' April 2-t. The Board of Health has recommended the abolition of compulsory notification •of influenza on the grounds that it was too drastic, interfered "vith business ,and led to' unnecessary panic. In reply to a question whether it could bp assumed beyond question that the visitation \ras not Spanish influenza, the chairman, Dr.. Robertson, paid that influenza was the name now as it was in the time of Hippocrates, but it was morevirulent than it had been in former years. Every disease hud its degrees of virulence. Another member declared .that thousands of'eases that were reported were simply cold?, helping towards unwarranted- panic.—Press Assn. SmiVCBD-NEW ZJ-lALMDEIiS. ■ (Eec. April 24, 'J. 50 p.m.) Sydney, April 24. Xtr. J. Kirkwood, an ex-New Zealander, has placed, his home at Brighton-le-Sands at the disposal of fifteen stranded New Zealanders.— Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 180, 25 April 1919, Page 5
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150INFLUENZA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 180, 25 April 1919, Page 5
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