INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
A BIG RUN IN THE SOUTH,
SHORTAGE OF QUININE,
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Christchurch, last night.
There is an influenza epidemic throughout Canterbury, and there is scarcely a business place that has not a large proportion of its employees away ill. One firm has 54 and another 37 employees away. The doctors arc extremely busy, and some wholesale houses have run short of quinine. School attendance is seriously affected.
The inlluen/.a epidemic litis season is far more rampant in Christchurch than in any previous year. Not alone arc households practically decimated by it, but it has penetrated to the hospital itsoll, several nurses being prostrated. There arc at present in the hospital somo thirty cases, but the number in private houses is exceedingly large. One medical practitioner stated that everybody in a house of one of his patients was prostrate, ana lie had to send in someone to look ,‘tcr the household. It is some time since we had so severe a winter, and this may account for the spread of inlluenza.— Truth.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 193, 22 August 1901, Page 2
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