INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

EPIDEMIC IN THE ISLANM^Ij A COMMISSION TO 'iNQUIB^Jfi By Telegraph. —Press Association':>JM .Wellington, Last Nls*&||j A Royal commission has been &FPwWM9 by the Government of New ZeaUnd'wß enquire into the causes of the OOtbliiJKH of pneumonic influenza in year. The chairman of the rmtmUJffl|M is to be Mi*. George Elliot, 6f A and the other members Messrs, n«ra Wilson and William Harold Sefton lUrkS house. They are to enquire into tiuia|H lowing questions: First, the °bswl9 stances and causes of the of epidemic pneumonic influent* intoappH islands in November, 1018, and of .ltoifigjs tension in those islands; (2) all istsS3njj connected with the departure steamship Talune from the port of 4ra|ifl land, her voyage to and arrival at (Pfl Islands; (3) whether the introdoctln%4||l extension of the epidemic was,cjHMtd«il negligence or default on the part of wll persons in the service of the Crown, inSml ther in respect of the Executive .Craw?| of New Zealand or in respect of lJ«dBM§l ministration of the Islands. Mr. JUSdI Thompson, of the Hansard staff, has u|| appointed secretary to the coamiaatoi^l DEATHS, IN N.&W. "fA Received May 9, 10.80 P4O. '■■'<s Sydney, May 9, si The official influenza figures of *•&" A in New South Wales since January ■%''£ aro as follows: Metropolis, 1217; renaltt-- 1 '! der of State, 300; whereof 1008 ww»"iy males and 521 females.— Aus. and KJ&S Cable Assoc. :