INFLUENZA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 7

INFLUENZA

———& — FURTHER CASES ON PATEENA. There was a fresh development yesterday in (."0111100(1011 with the outbreak ol influenza 011. board tlio Union ComIMiiy'") steamer Patcena. Tlirco more members of ■ the crew—tlio chief cook, ficcond cook, and a greaser—were re.moved lo the hospital yesterday morning suffering frohi tlio disease in a mild form. The number of cases noiv totals Fix, and the hospital authorities stato that nil are ranking fair progress. The Mapourika lias entered the PictonNelson run in place of the Pateenn, aid loft Wellington yesterday afternoon. KOGGEVEEN'S PATIENTS CONVALESCENT. Sydney, January 9. All the patients from the steamer l!oggeveen .are convalescent, and ihero are 110 fresh eases—Press Assn. TThe steamer Eoggeveen, from New Caledonia, was onf.rantiiied in Sydney, owing to 1111 outbreak of influenza 011 lioard. A cable from Noumea stated that one of the steamer's patients, who was landed there, developed small-pox. and others develnne.l influenza. .Several of the latter <li?d. The victims are coolies.] , ■ , CASES IN THE NORTH. By Telegraph—Prepi Association. Auckland, January 9. The "Herald's" correspondent telcpmplis ns follows:—"An outbreak oP influenza has occurred nt Tiran. Two Natives hnve died and two 'other ca*es have been reported. Nenr'y every ]inu ca in Tir<m and. surroundim.' districts ic affected, four and five inmates being .ill in several eases.' The health inspector retwrts that the maioritv nf the cases nre mild and that the patient, gMiernlly are inWovm'. There is a prions lack of medical and nursintr fnei'Uips at Tiraii, and' the medical officer has liad to visit the township from Mefamta, where the disease is still prevalent." _ • Commenting upon the foregoing; teleera nt. T>r. Monk. d'strict health officer,, stated that thmieh thd news it contained was correct, there was not the slightest cause for alarm. TTe compared the outbreak with that which occurred at Hamilton a few weeks ngo; and which had no serious eonseouences. Concerning the allied lack of'nursimr assistance mentioned" in the telesrrani, Dr. Monk stated that immediately the neivs -of the outbreak was received a nurse and an inspector were dispatched to the scene, and the latest Yepnrt from the latter mdicnted flint the situation wasivell in hand. Tinally, he said that no particulars of the deaths had been received. It was not oven definitely known whether the cause of death was really influenza.