INFLUENZA.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA.

DECLINING IN AUSTRALIA. By -Telipjph.—tftMß jUan,—Copyright. Melbourne, Aug. 5. I)r, CrtTppstgn's report on the influenza epidemic states that the agents that brought about the decline in the epidemic were not necessarily inoculation, inhalation, or isolation in hospital, but there was a marked intrinsic tendency 4a the dtowwe towards a natural deeline in virulence and infectivity. He claims that the maritime quarantine was'of the preaUfif value, but says that the land quarantine was quite ineffective under tlic system recently attempted. Further, .the report states that 55,000 soldiers have been or will be discharged from tho expeditionary force in Australia, many of whom will still be infective. i

A'tpr sb.awbuf the prevalence of venereal disease In "Australia, Dr. Curap- , a ton urges tlie establishment of a Federal Department of Health tg direct a campaign against it.—Aus. N.2. Cable 4*«oc. VALUE OP INOCULATION. Received August 5, 7.50 p.m. Melbourne, August 5. Dr. Penfold, chief quarantine laboratory olfiwr, reports regarding the value of inoculation for influenza that the use of vaccine was associated with a fall in tlio incidence and 'mortality of the disease, the ratio of death* in the inoculated and un inoculated groups being as five to twent.v-four, A small part qf the improvement may have been <iue to the fact that quick treatment was received l>y those inoculated. Dr, Penfold pays inoculation should have been more

"ideiy used and the doses larger. A repetition of inoculation would certainly extend the period of immunity.—-Aus.-,\'.Z. Cable Assn.