LAST QUARANTINING
AX INFLUENZA EPISODE
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day
It is eleven years since a vessel was quarantined in Auckland. On Ist December, 1918, not long after , the worst period of the influenza epidemic in the city, the Makura arrived from Vancouver with five cases of influenza among, tho crew. The Health Department decided to place her in quarantine for seven days, and sho anchored off Motuihi. Only five patients wore put ashore, being accommodated in the caretaker's house. By the ■ following Thursday 2S more persons had contracted the disease, a number being members of tho crew. These patients also were landed, the Gorman prisoners on the island having been removed to tents so that the sick people might be placed in the quarantine buildings.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 10
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129LAST QUARANTINING Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 10
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