INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
INCREASE AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 10. To provide additional accommodation for soldiers suffering' from influenza, the Auckland Teachers’-- Training College, at Epsom, is to" be taken, over by the Health Department and equipped- as an auxiliary hospital. This was announced by the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board (Mr A. J. Moody) to-night. Mr Moody said the influenza at the Papakura mobilisation camp was on the increase and . drastic steps had been necessary to cope, with tfie conditions. The emergency wards at the Ellerslie racecourse were becoming overcrowded. It is expected that 20fl beds will be provided at the college. The emergency influenza hospital established last week at the Ellerslie racecourse for Papakura soldiers now spreads over the main grandstand, the St. Leger grandstand, and the tea kiosk. The total number of cases to-day was 416. of whom 410 were in the Auckland Hospital, Auckland Infirmary, and at Ellerslie. It is expected that a further 60 cases will be transferred from the camp to-morrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 164, 11 June 1940, Page 6
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