INFLUENZA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 107, 30 January 1920, Page 6

INFLUENZA

*-__ CHRISTCHURCH VIGILANT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, January. 29. The Mayor, stated to-day that as influenza was prevalent in oilier countries it. had been decided to call a meeting of the Citizens' Committee appointed booh after the epidemic o£ 1918. Patrols had been ulaced on duty this morning. "There is very/little influenza hero now," Dr. Thackcr said. "We want to prevent it coming from the North Island, as it did previously. In any case, we will not let it come while wc are unprepared." A QUARANTINE ORDER, By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, January 29. .The Public Health Department is issuing an order that all scholars arriving from the North Island to attend boarding schools in this island are to be quarantined at their schools for iS hours before be.ine allowed to mix in classes or otherwise with the local scholars. A Press Association message from Wanganui states that in compliance with the Health Department's order closing the schools as a preenntion against influenza, the \Vanganui Education Board has decided that the pupils of the schools are not to reassemble before February 9. Only a couple of cases of mild form are reported in the Wanganui district. At the request of the Public Health Department the reopening of the Nelson Bovs' and Girls' Colleges and of tho schools in the Nelson Education Board's districts has been postponed for one Assn.