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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1918, Page 1

PUBLIC NOTICES. TRAMWAYS, RESTRICTED SERVICE TO-DAY. will be no tram 9 running TODAY (Wednesday) between 11.10 a.m. and 5.45 p.m. Last ear leaves Breakwater 10.40 a.m. Last car leaves Fitzroy 10.10 a.m. Cars arriving and leaving Depot at above times; otherwise the service will be as usual. P. T. BELLRIXGER, Town Clerk. PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, NEW ZEALANDINFLUENZA. PRECAUTIONS AND WARNINGS. TF persons undertake the following precautions there should be very much less risk of taking the illness and likelihood of complications: PRECAUTIONS. Remain in the fresh air as much as possible. Avoid too close contact with persons suffering from colds. Absolutely avoid intimate contact—e.g.. kissing and dancing. Avoid places where persons congregate indoors—e.g., public meetings, trams, entertainments, etc. Avoid draughts. Always cough or sneeze into a handkerchief. Use a simple spray for the nose and gargle the throat—e.g., Condy's fluid or any other throat antiseptic, or U3e Formamint lozenges, etc. Avoid close contact with persons suffering from Influenza. Do not remain unnecessarily long with patient, as this increases danger of infection. Ammonified tincture of quinine is a drug that is much recommended. Spray or vype floor and furniture in rooms that have been occupied by infected persons with a solution of about half a breakfast-cup to a gallon of water of any reliable disinfectant. Cio to bed when feel onset of symptoms, and remain there till all the fever has completely disappeared. This is the only way of avoiding risk oi complications. Isolation should be practised where possible, and only oue member of family should visit the patient's room. Destroy sputum, etc., by receiving sputum and nasal secretions into proper receptacles containing 3 per cent, carj bolic acid, or into cloths which afterwards burn. Keep patient's feeding utensils, etc., separate, and place in boiling water after use. Handkerchiefs used by patients should be kept separate and well boiled after use. Patients should not appear in public places for seven to ten days after the onset'of the disease, and should be particularly careful not to sueeze or cough without using a handkerchief which has been soaked for an hour in a weak solution of disinfectant—say, a teaspoonful to a pint of water; otherwise there is danger of infection being spread. Light nutritious diet is recommended. The attendant on the Hick person should wash her hands in water to which i disinfectant has been added after leaving | the sick-room and before each meal. She and the other members of the household should gargle the throat frequently and douche the nose with mild antiseptics. •She should avoid visiting or coming into close contact with other people. By Order, J. P. FRENGLEY, Acting Chief Health Officer. Wellington, Bth November, 1918. POSTPONEMENT. METHODIST PATRIOTIC DAY. QWTNG to many of the workers in connection with the above effort being affected by the influenza epidemic, it has been considered advisable to postpone tie special day until further notice. V. GRIFFITHS, % E. L. COOPER, Joint Sees. POSTPONEMENT. METHODIST CONCERTS, LEPPERTON AND WATTARA. JN accordance with regulations enforced by the Health Department, the above concerts will be postponed until further notice. LAND TRAHSFER ACT NOTICES. JJOTICE is hereby given ttat the several parcels of land hereinafter de-scribed-win be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, vnksa caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 16th day of December 1918. EMILY CARRJCK.-Section 1033, Town of New Plymouth, unoccupied. No: 1379. ANN ELIZA RICKETS, WILLIAM CARSICK AND EDWIN MALABAR CARRICK.-Section 1034, Town of New Plymouth, unoccupied. No. 1380. Diagrams may be inspected at this office. Dated tm's nth. day of November, 1918, at the Lands Registry Office, New Ply- *": I A. V. STTJRTEVANT, I District Land Registrar. PUK} UP CBOZXER, No. 21, DTGLEWOOD, when you want to go to the Mountain or anywhere else. Big, roomy Competent drivers. Good service,