INFLUENZA
THE AUCKLAND EPIDEMIC. NOTIFICATIONS MORE NUMEROUS. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 14. There were 119 mild and 10 severe influenza cases reported for the 24 hours ended at noon yesterday, and from then till midday to-day the number shows an increase, being 132 mild and 9 severe over the whole of the Auckland Health district. As the result of the high totals being recorded almost every day, the Auckland Health Officer has advised the Education Board that all schools had better remain closed except in the districts of Coromandel and Mercury Bay, where the ailment has not shown signs of spreading. Accordingly the schools in these two places will re-open on Monday, bu tali others in the Auckland Health district will remain closed indefinitely. COLLAPSE OF RAILWAY PATROLMAN. CHRISTCHURCH, May 14. The pilot train from Arthur’s. Pass last evening found that a patrolman at Darfield had collapsed owing to influenza. He was lying alongside the line. The man was picked up and brought to the Christchurch Hospital.
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Southland Times, Issue 18823, 17 May 1920, Page 6
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169INFLUENZA Southland Times, Issue 18823, 17 May 1920, Page 6
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