INFLUENZA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1920, Page 4

INFLUENZA.

| A DEATH AT CHRISTCHTJBCH. CASES OP PNEUMONIC TYPE. By Telegraph.—Press Assertion. Christchurch, Last Night. A woman, thirty-three years of age, died in the Christchurch hospital last) night, following a severe attack of influenza. The woman had been removed to the institution from a private hotel in the city earlier in the day. The hospital authorities state this is the only death from influenza which has occurred there for over a week. Tha isolation ward at the liospital at present contains seven fairly severe cases of a pneumonic type, and Ave or six jnild cases. So far there has been an absence of anything at all resembling a "wave," and it is considered, if All precautions are observed, there is not much chance of an alarming outbreak occur-, ring. . . . ■ NOTHING TO CAUSE ALARM. VALUE OP FJtESH AIR. "If we had not liad the virulent pandemic of last year, the present out* break would not have attracted any particular attention," said Dr. Fookes, acting superintendent of the Hospital, ia a News representative yesterday. Hei went on to say that the present form was the influenza of old, with none ofj the pneumonic characteristics of thn pandemic. Sometimes pneumonia foli 'owed an attack of influenza, it is truey init that was the case before the pani demic. The greatest preventative was fresh air. Buildings could not have too much ventilation, and people could not get too muoh into the fresh air. There waR nothing in the present situation, he concluded, to cause alarm, s<j long as the people took ordinary pre« cautions. In our advertising columns the Taranaki Hospital Board publish particulars of precautions to be followed to avoid, Influenza. The few cises in the district are of a mild type, and nothing serious Is apprehended, but it is wSfffor people to be prepared and take the arv measures outlined in the statement issued by. the Board.