THE EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1918, Page 5

THE EPIDEMIC.

IN CAPETOWN AND THE EAST. HARROWING DETAILS OP THE SCOURGE. ' I Received Dec. 10, 73Tp.ni. Melbourne. Dec. 10. Capetown files give Han owing details of the influenza epidemic. They state that there were SOOO deaths in the metropolitan area alone. Eastern flies show that the disease is raging in Japan, China, and Straits "Settlements. In Japan the railway and other public services are quite disorganised. In the Straits Settlements tin mining is suspended. ARCHBISHOP AND GUARD. INOCULATION GAINING IN POPULARITY. Received Doc. JO, 7.35 p.m. -ttu ■ . , . S^:(lne . v ' Night "hen Archbishop KeiJy was seeking to secure admission to the quarantine station he asked the sergeant of the guard: "What will you do if I attempted to get in 1" ' " The sergeant: ■ ''Treat you very kindly!" Archbishop Ifelly then asked: "'Would I ba any newer the sick?" lie received the reply: "Not ft bit!" The papers are teeming with letters, both from thw Catholics and Protestant?, protesting, against the official refusal lo admit chaplains. Inoculation against, influenza is securing popularity in unexpected, directions.. One man claims to have cured himself of rheumatic arthritis. Another, that it robbed him of a crop of corn's, Received Dec. 10. 7 30 p.m. \ Melbourne, Last Night. Mr. Greene Ims announced that? subject to certain precautions, the clergymen will be permitted fo enter quarantine to minister to dying persons, i COPING WITH MAORI PATIENT,?. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisbonic, Last Night. Steps to cope with' the influenza outweak anion? the Maoris in the settlements round Gisbovne and Wairoa are now taking definite shs.pe. Lady Carroll, who headed the relief party oF leading Maoris from Gisborae. has just returned. Siio. states that the difficulty at Xuhaka in getting the Maoris to go into temporary hospitals was due to the unhappy circumstances that the first two Native patients, both serious eases, died The party managed to assure the Natives that they should undergo proper treatment, and the Native chiefs agreed to send out. into the outlying districts to ■fetch in the serious ca=es. Male assistance in the temporary hospital is needed even more than female Kelp, as a case in Toint shows. Two Maoris,- in a delirious condition, fled from tha temporary hospital and have not since been found. At the time tfiere was only on,! female nurse, who was unable to prevent the departure of the Maoris. Tho' Mayor of Gisbomc has gon« through to Wairoa to see what help is necessary, and is expected to return in the morning, Native committees have been formed on the East, Coast to make arrangements to checß the epidemic if it should make its appearance in a more severe form than at present, and to lake any steps necessary. It is understood there is.a slight wave among tha Native pahs from to Cape Runaway,and it is feared it may reach as far as To l°ga. DEATHS IN CITV AREAS, , ■ USELESS® FIGURES. - ' Wellington, Last Nigbt. Tho. statistics prepared by tlis Regis-trar-General > for city areas giva _ the deaths from influenza and pnsumonia to December fi as:—Auckland 007. Wellington ,383, Chriftchnrch 4-4", Dimedin 241. It was immciiiatcpy pointed out, as fat as Wellington is concerned, that, ins figures were absurd; that li bad already been published that tha Fnrials at K&rori for part of November ;.'ere iO9. 14 is now statid that tho figures only contain the registrations and no; the ficlual number of deaths. Those fov Auckland are nearly correct, but che -jthera we incomplete, espe;ia'!iy those for Wellington. HOSPITAL REPORT.-; At New Plymouth Hospital yesterday there were 8 admissions (3 from \Vaitara, 1 Okato, 1 Oawiui, ied 1 Plymouthy, Two deaths occurr?J, mn .being Miss Phyllis Richarda <10), of Waita/a, and the other Nurse Wa/te, oJ- the f/fspitil staff, daughter <A Mr. Write, ox IV rata. Two patients were dweharged, 8 sent to the Etet End convalesee.it iaatitution, and <sl cases remaining in hospital. At Kawaroa, no new «aao was admitted, but 7 were discharged, 15 reniaiuini At the East End there v/ere three ulmissions, 7 discharges, aid 17 remaining. ; "manalv Manaia hospital on Tuesday reported? There were no admis3iosn yesterday. All the patients in the institution are doing well. Mrs. (Dr.) Monroe liGckin, who has been a most arduous worker at local hospital,, is laid up with the influenza. Maori Hospital: On Saturday Md Sunday there were no admissions to the institution. There were two vfTy serious cases in hospital. • On Saturday afternoon, on the Glenn Road, there fffiJ one death at the Maori pa—Kino Te Tutu, fiS years of age; also anothw on Sunday —Ra Kepa, daughter of Kepa, Normsnby Road, aged IS years. Both w-rje veil respected in Manaia and district. ■ | ELTHAM. The Town Hall will probably be closed to-day. There will be only three patients le f t in tlie main hospital when the eight convalescents are discharged. HAWERA. One patient died in the temporary hos- , pital—Mrs. G. Zimmerman, aged 23, of , the Normanby Road, Manaia. Her husband is in the institution, but is reported to be doing well ; Thirteen fresh cases were admitted to i Sie temporary hospital on Monday, including nine from one house in the Norpianby district The large number of new cases admitted is'net cojuidered bj the author!-

t;e.< to be a n indication of a second wave appearing. Plie position to date as regards the. tempo!nry hospital is: Admissions,'lß7; deaths, 32; transfers or discharges, 129; remaining in hospital, 20. There have been sis discharged, leaving 20 in the institution. There are two bad cases in the hospital. The removal of the patients to the public hospital was .carried out yesterday.—Star. ■* -