TUAKAU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 429, 26 November 1918, Page 3

TUAKAU.

As mentioned in another column in this issue the authorities have considered it desirable to centralise attention to country influenza patients by establishing a temporary hospital at Pukekohe for the treatment of patients from all around the district and no further patients will accordingly be admitted to the two temporary hospitals at Tuakau. The deaths of Mr William Francis De Goffe on Friday and of Nurse Frances Dickson on Saturday brought the death roll in Tuakau up to 13. The patients still in the hos pital are to-day reported as all doing well and there is every indication that the disease has been checked. The late Mr De Goffe, who was 28 years of age, was a member of the local staff of the Waikato Cooperative Dairy Company. He de parted with one of the reinforcement drafts but contracting pneumonia in England before going to the front he was returned invalided to New Zealand. Nurse Frances Dickson, who died cn Saturday, was a sister of Mr J. 8. Dickson, M.P., for Parnell, and of the late Mrs W. J. Deeble. She was a certificated nurse, having been trained at the Auckland Hospital, and being afterwards matron of the Whangarei and Hawene Hospitals successively. Subsequently she went to England and on her return she engaged in private nursing. She came to Tuakau to nurse the late Mrs W. J. Deeble and also devoted attention to the work at the temporary hospitals. Whilst administering to the sufferers she C' ntracted the disease. It is hoped that operations at the Tuakau butter factory will be restarted next Monday, but at first only a limited amount of cream will be able to be handled.