Influenza Epidemic.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 November 1918, Page 3

Influenza Epidemic.

THIRTEEN DEATHS YESTERDAY. (Per Press Association!) Auckland, November 5. Only one death' from influenza occurred in the hospital yesterday, but there were about twelve deaths in the city and suburbs.

Twelve more nurses and a doctor ar rived from the South.

There are 204 oases in ,ihe Hospital at iJvarrow Neck Camp, some of them being pneumonio.

HEAfY DEATH ROLL AT HOME

Received this day, 9.40 a.m. London, November 4. Though influenza is generally aba/> iiijr there is a serious position in Leicester wher© there were 355 deaths last week. Numerals contnue all day 'long and the Corporation is obliged to aissist ■m provide conveyances.

A telegram yesterday stated that 15 deaths, directly traceable to influenza, are known to 'have occurred in Auckland on Saturday and Sunday. Three deaths occurred in one house a)t Newton. The police broke into a house in Cook street on Sunday and found a man and his wtfe seriously ill and unattended. When khc ambulance arrived the man was dead-

Narrow Neck Camp ip now generally affected and one native soKKesr has died.

A hundred cases were reported at the Awapuni medical camp at Palmerston yesterday, and many tente fiad to be hastily erected. The Minister for Public Health stated yesterday that the Chief Health Officers at Christchurch, Dunedlin, and Wellington, as well as Auckland, had been .inPtructed to prepare a considerable number of sprayers for use in public inhalation chambers, where eulpha|':e of sine could be inhaled as a preventive against 'the dftsease. TEese chambers will contain 10 or 20 persons at a. time. The Minister is also considering a suggestion that all Main Trunk passengers should pass through inhalation chambers at Auckland and Wellington. These chambers would be providled in sufficient numbers to be available in any centre where the disease might break out. In answer to a question .the Minister said the disease was purely influenza. There was nothing to justify the statement that it was any particular form of influenza, and practically all the deaths supervening were due to pneumonia, in many _ cases because people would not take the precaution of following out the medical! advice to stay In bed for three days . The Ohristohiurch Sun quotes Itocal to their notice where deaths had occurdoefcors as saying that cases had come red following pneumonia, , bronchitis and other bronchial trouble following on the original attack of influenza. In all of such instances, except k'n_ tflie case of a young woman, the fatalities had occurred amongst old people. The fact that they had succumbed, and possibly had contracted bronchial _ Arouble was due to causes connected with their age. "There is no cause for alarm," most of the medical men declared, "provided the patient seeks the blankets when at. tacked." ,