AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
'• * \ PRECAUTIONS AGAINST INFLQ, . ENZA. Received Nov. IS, 0.40 pjnSydney, Nov. 18. A special Cabinet meeting .discussed the serious reports of the effect of the Spanish influenza in New Zealand. The; devised elaborate precautions to combat the epidemic. The health officers are of opinion that the disease is not true influenza, bul pneumonia of a highly virulent type which they term epidemic pneumonia. Hospitals have been cleared to receivn patients, 4 and au extensive chain of in ovulation depots established, aVid large quantities of vaccine prepared. It is believed that a strong facto: against the introduction of'.tie epidemii inn Australia is the siort' life of tlx infective organism when away from hu man issue, medical men finding it e* trcmely difficult to make a culture fro» the organisms.—Australian;N,Z.' Cablt Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1918, Page 4
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