INFLUENZA
not widely distributed DEPARTMENT TAKES SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS ' The reports that are reach ins ths Health Department regarding influenza in tho Dominion do 'not indicate anything like a recurrence of tho epidemic, but in view of what has taken place in other countries, the authorities are making certain precautionary arrangements. Steps have been taken under the Health Act of last year to set up local emergency committees in the chief centres, so that no .time need he lost if the need for their services should arise. Tho port health officers have been in-Btructed'-to watch carefully riving from overseas, and to refuse pratique to auv ship that has influenza cases aboard until directions have -.teen icceived from the district health officers. The bacteriological of the Department has been instructed to have stocks of influenza vaccine in readiness.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 285, 26 August 1921, Page 5
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136INFLUENZA Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 285, 26 August 1921, Page 5
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