INFLUENZA

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1920, Page 2

INFLUENZA

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2 DEATHS AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 7,

Two more deaths from influenza are recorded,.. They were middle-aged men who died of pneumonic influenza in Christchurch Hospital yesterday. Both had been inmates for less than a week and both were in a serious condition when they were admitted. To-day there are five cases of severe and five of milder influenza in the hospital.

A reporter approached Dr W. Fox (Medical Superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital) to-day, and iwas informed that the cases now being received at that institution are of the same type as those met- with in the epidemic of November, 1918. There are, however, it is pointed out many grades of that type, and generally the disease is not so severe in its nature this time.

SEVERE CASES. DUNEDIN, February 8. Regarding influenza very few further notifications have been received during Saturday and to-day. Those received show the outbreak still of mild type. To-day the patients 'in the Dunedin Hospital suffering from influenza number forty-two. Of these 38 are classed as severe eases, though noil-pneumonic, and four cases are pneumonic. The latest are sporadic cases of the type experienced in the army some two or three years prior to the outbreak of pneumonic influenza in New Zealand in 1918.