Influenza Epidemic.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 November 1918, Page 2

Influenza Epidemic.

LOCAL PRECAUTIONS. The serious nature of the influenza .'pideniie is being brought home to the people of Now Zealand very forcibly just now and in common with. local bodies in- other centres the. Levin Borough Council wisely issues a warning to residents to take steps to resist the ravages of the malady and take precautionary measures. An appeal will be found to citizens in our advertising columns with suggestions for the copious use of disinfectants and attention to cleanliness. \For the_ information of our readers the following instructions issued by the Chief Health Officer are published in regard to the treatment of public buildings br offices:

Immediately a case of influenza occurs the patient should be sent 'home, and place himself under the care of his medical man. The seat, desk, furniture, and floor within, say, a radius of 6ft of where the officer waia working should be immediately disinfected by being sprayed or .washed over with a solution of 2 per cent disinfectant; say half a breakfast, cup full of formalin, or oifrher reliable disinfectant, td one gallon of water. Telephones should also be washed with mich solution. After the staff have left the floors can be sprayed or waslned witii the solution.

Contacts with any patients should gargle freely with mild antiseptics. There have been 54 deaths in Auckland in the, past four weeks. There is a great shortage of assistance and hundreds of appeals have baen ~ received for help, but the authorities are unable to send nurses.