INFLUENZA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3404, 7 February 1920, Page 5

INFLUENZA.

MILD CASE ON THE MARAROA. THE STEAMER HELD UP. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 6. An ordinary seaman on the ferry steamer Mararoa. reported sick this morning. A doctor diagnosed the case as one of mild influenza. The

man Was able to walk to the train to go into hospitalin Christchurch. The ’ men’s quarters in the Mararoa. were fumigated during the day and Union officials were agreeable to the men

sailing in the ship to-night, but the

men themselves refused to go aboard 1‘ till the whole boat had been thoroughly fumigated from end to end. The wh-ole of the crew went ashore, and fumigation work is being carried out to-night. The M-araroafs sailing for Wellington has been postponed -till tomorrow night. The Wakatu took North ‘lsland mails, but she calls at Kaikoura, and will not reach Wellington until to-

morrow night. ‘ MORE CASES REPORTED. STEAMER JOHN ISOLATED.

Yesterday the steamer John, from Timaiu, landed three members‘ of »her' crew with influenza, tviio being severe cases. ’ The vesselfs cargo was not wérked, and the Wharf was barricaded off and the vessel isolated while disinfecting Was carried out. Six additional cases. have been notified to the local Health Inspector, three being serious.

The managers of the 1o”c‘a1 picture theatres are carrying out the Health Department's recommendation not to admit children under 15 years, but it is a diflic-ult matter in many cases to decide whether a child is above the age or not. In any case, ‘it seems likely that a child aged 15% years is just as susceptlble to “ills of the flesh" as a child a§.;'e'd 14% years,

TWO CHILDREN DROWNED. GISBORNE, Feb. 6. A drowning accident at Kaiteratfiahi late this afternoofih resulted in the death of two children named Zona May Lasker (seven years) and_William Lasker (eight Y‘33~1‘5)- The father is C. Lasker, who is foreman at the Poverty Bay Meat Works. It is stated that the children, accompanied by 3, Maori boy, named Waaka, were ‘sent af 4.30

to a store for bread. About 5 pm.

Waaka arrived at the store ‘and told a lad named Cameron that the two Lask. er children. Went in to bathe, and did not come up, and that he saw bubbles ‘arising on the surface. Alarm was given, and a number of persons dived for the bodies, which were recovered ‘at 5.30. A