INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1918, Page 2

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

CONDITIONS IX Auckland: ' By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, Monday. 170 of the Tram Cu.'s sLull" uru'af>eted to-tluj-. Cur gci'vices were -2 cars .short. In .Narrow Neck Camp tilei'G iIVO '221 case.;, SOUIO with JJUellmoiiia complications. The Tmipiri C'o.'s Rofcw'aro mine at liuntly is shut down and the company's output reduced by 2tMI ions daily, The. I'.aihvay Workshops are closing, telegraph business is delayed, tlio lorry service is curtailed, and three icsscls have been laid up. Tim running 01 ihe mosquito fleet is affected. There was & constant procession through the public fumigation room to-day. One of the victims is lira Tau Henare, wife of the member. Auckland. Nov 5. There was only one death from influenza- at the hospital yesterday, but about twelve deaths in the city and suburbs. Twelvo more nurses, also a doctor who arrived from the south, are invalided. There are 221 cases in the hospital at Harrow Neck camp, some of them pneumonic. WIDESPREAD CASUALTIES. London, Nov. 4. Though influenza is generally abating, there is a serious position in Leicester, where there were 355 deaths last week, and funerals continue all day long. The corporation has been obliged to assist in providing conveyances. —Aus.rN.Z: Cable Asscc. Perth. Nov. 5. A Chinese influenza, patient from the steamer Charon, who was in quarantine? is dead. ( IN DOMINION. Napier, Nov. 5. Adams, a member of the e|»w of the Mako, the whole of wlioss ei'w was admitted to tie Napier Hospital, died of influenza to-day. This is the. first death from the epidemic at Napier Palmerston N, Nov. 5. There is an epidemic of influenza in Palmerston North and the number of patients is steadily increasing. In addition to a large number of sufferers in Awapuni Camp, many persons employed in business establishments in the town art affected, and tlis disease is evidently of a virulent type.

THE KAITCNA TROUBLE. Wcslport, Last Night. The trouble in Tepard to the Kaituna ia still unsettled. The wafersiders remain obdurate, and hav? substantially resolved not to go near the boat usless the company guarantees them affainst the contagion o! inliuen7a. The crew of the steamer, who are not, de-tvn, are intermingling with the coiniiinity as if no* thing had occurred. Inflncnr'n. is becoming prevalent among the cirj.-ons.