FORM OF INFLUENZA.
MILD TYPE IN WELLINGTON.
ADVICE TO PATIENTS.
A mild epidemic, which closely resembles influenza, is causing some concern in Wellington city and suburbs, particularly in the Hutt Valley. The disease, so far has principally attacked children, though adults have by no means escaped.
Though infectious, the outbreak, fortunately, is of a mild character, and there is a marked freedom from complications. The disease is accorm panied by pain in the lower chest or abdomen which at times gives victims the impression that they are. suffering from appendicitis. Medical advice is that all persons attacked should be put to bed at once, and kept there until the temperature has been normal for two or three days. Patients should be isolated from other members of the household, and eating utensils should be scalded or, better still, boiled after use.
The. Dominion is Stated to be comparatively free from the serious types of influenza—pneumonic, septicaemic, and fulmerant. During the month ended January 10 only six cases and three deaths were recorded for the whole of New Zealand.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5076, 17 January 1927, Page 2
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177FORM OF INFLUENZA. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5076, 17 January 1927, Page 2
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