INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

There are still a few mild cases of influenza in tho Bltlum district (aays the Argus) Inspector A. Gray, of the Publii'.'jrTealtli Department, states that there are some mild vases) at Xgaere anil on tho Stewart Koad Tho position ai Kitpoiiga is greatly improved, both the emergency and convalescent hospitals being closed last week. During tho recent influenza epidemic the imporance of sunlight as a preventive and curative agent was stressed by the medical profession. Sunlight 1 ia being successfully employed also in the treatment of wounded men in many ot the military hospitals in France. An American, Dr. Willis Campbell, is said to have used the sun treatment for the past five years with marked success in diseases of the bones and joints, and he is of opinion that it could be usefully applied to the treatment of other disorders, especially in military Surgery. Dr. Campbell is a professor of ortliopoedic surgery in the University of Tonn«sseo, and in the Journal of American Surgery (New York) he describes 127 of his cases. For the modem develop ment of tEe sue cure he gives credit to Dr. Bollier, of Switzerland, who has three high-level sanatoria for sun treatment at altitudes varying from 4000 ft to 5000 ft. The ultra-violet rays are regarded by lvim as the curative ones, and on the high altitudes these are most abundant. But Dr. Campbell has achieved good results at ordinary levels. He says, however, that the administration of the solar rays is s>y no means a simple task, and that the closest scrutiny is necessary at all times, or tho treatment will rarely,, if ever., beeucsessM/ " " -