INFLUENZA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 196, 14 May 1919, Page 7

INFLUENZA

POSITION IN WELLINGTON. ,■ Between May 8 and Mivy 12/ 18 casM of influenza, including two of the pueumonlo type nt Waipawn, wore reported ■ Wellington publio health die--trict. There was one severe--coso of influenza in Wellington oity, and three mild cases. Following are the localities in which cases were reported',—Waipawa, 2 pneumonic; Napier, 2 mildj Elthani, 2 mild; Marlon, 1 > mild j Wellington olty, 3 mild, 1 severe; Lower Hutt, 2 mild; Featherston, 2. mild; Motueka, 1 mild) Nelson, a mild. Total, '18.. " DEATH ON SOMES ISLAND. ' A fifth death among the members of the orew of ■ the' intercolonial etenme.r Manuka occurred on Somes Island j-es-terday. Deceased's name' was John Wall, and he was 28 years of nge. Ho-wan ft fireman on the vessel. The "burial will take place to-day. Thoro are now on tho island onlv three patients, two of whom are convalescent, and one whose condition has shown no change. There have been no freeh cases since Mny 8. CASES ! IN. THE DOMINION. . ,Bv Teleuxaoh—Press. AsanoUtion .. V: Christphurch, (May 18. The Hon.Gl W. Russell to-night supplied the following influenza figures for the period May 8 to 12 :-The total for the Dominion was's4 cases, made uj> as ibl- . low: Auckland district, 17, of which four \ in Auckland oity ore severe, and also one tin Whakatane; . Wellington district, 12, of which two at Waipawa aTe severe and one in Wellington oity;.Nelson district. 8 (all mild); North Canterbujy, -U mild •and three pneumonic; South Canterbury, • four mild and two severe; West Coast, Bnller hospital district, two mild; Otago, .two mild, one severe. '