INFLUENZA

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1920, Page 2

INFLUENZA

[PEE PHfSSS ASSOCIATION.—COFTEIGHT.j QUARANTINE REVIVED. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 29. The Public Health Department is issuing an order that ali -scholars arriving from- the North Island to- attend boarding -schools in this island are to be quarantined at their schools for fortyeight hours before being allowed to mix in classes or otherwise with the local scholars. NELSON, Jan. 29. At the request of the Public Health Department, the re-openiug of the NeL son Boys’ and Girls’ Colleges and of schools in the Nelson Education Board s district have been postponed for one week.

IN OTHER PLACES. WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. ‘ Reports from other places show no fewer than 173 cases of influenza were reported last week up to Monday) in Wellington district, an increase of about- 40 on the previous week. Only a few are pneumonic, the other cases being such that the illness lasts only three or four days. Detailed reports are: Waipawa 7: Stratford 4 (one' pneumonic), Wanganui 1, Palmerston North 4, (two pneumonic), Wellington 115, (three pneumonic), Wairara-pa 3 (one pneumonic). Wairnu 2, Tic-ton 14, Nelson 19. Dr Makgill says the cases do not prove the epidemic is assuming a more serious type. The proportion of pneuj monie and more serious cases is, if anyt thing, lower than a month ago. Parents j whose children are at present at summer resorts would, he says, be well ndI vised to leave them there for another j week if possible. 'Hie Wellington schools will not reopen liefore February 10th.

Further details show the cases as follows: Auckland, 71 mild and four severe; Wellington, 93 mild and three pneumonic, of which two are severe. Canterbury, 14 mild and 1 pneumonic. Otago, 7 mild and 2- pneumonic. SYDNEY PRECAUTIONS. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In view of the re-appearance elsewhere, the Federal Health authorities are taking timely precautions against rt possible influenza re-visitation. -Everything is reported in readiness, to handle it, should an outbreak occur.