THE EPIDEMIC

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10274, 8 May 1919, Page 4

THE EPIDEMIC

A SUSPECTED CASE SAILING QF KOMATA . PUT OFtfINDEFINITELY. ■'', ■' . The Union Company's steamer Ko» mata, s was to have left Wellington at noon yesterday for Westport, but one of her firemen; violin JParnham, had to be'removed' to the "Hospital influenza suspect. A few. passengers who were to proceed by the vessel were told to disembark and- the ship's departure was postponed indefinitely. The fireman liad a, considerable temperature and complained of bodily pains'. At 5 o'clock a medical officer took tlio temperature of all on board, but no others displayed any symptoms of sickness. Mr*W. T. Young, general secretary of the Seamen's Union, suggested that the vessel should undergo-at-least two or three days' quarantine, «js that would minimise the risk of the epidemic again spreading throughput _ shipping and causing another • complete hold-up of maritime movements such as .was experienced a few months' ago. ' The Eomata will be moved from the Railway wharf to the Clyde quay wharf this morning and fumigation will be carried out on the vessel. CASE OH THE ECHO. NAPIER, May 7. A mild case of influenza was report* ed on the Echo to-day, and the vessel has been isolated in the roadstead for forty-eight hours.