INFLUENZA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1920, Page 5

INFLUENZA.

THE WAVE ABATING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 7. Mr. Castle, chairman of the Hospital Board, states that he has consulted medical men and Ib now of opinion that it is not necessary to set up vigilance committees. Medical men hold the view that the influenza wave is abating. TWO DEATHS AT CHRISTCHURCH. Christchurch, Feb. 7. Two middle-aged men died of pneumonic influenza in Christchurch Hospital yesterday. Both have been inmates for less than a week, tind both were in a serious condition when admitted. To-day there are five cases of severe and five of milder influenza in the hospital. A reporter, who approached Dr. W. Fox, Medical Superintendent of Clirlntchurch Hospital, to-day, was informed that, the cases wliich are being received nt that institution are of the same type as those within the epidemic of November, 1918. There are, however, many grades of that type, and generally the disease is not so severe in its nature this time. MILD CASES IN DUNEDIN.

Dunedin, Last, NightIn regard to influenza very few notifications have been received .during the week-end, but those received show that the outbreak is still of a mild type. To-day the patients in Dunedin Hospital suffering from influenza number forty-two, of whom thirty-eight are classed as seven- I non-pneumonic) and foiir pneumonic. The latter are sporadic cases of the type experienced in the army some two or three years prior to the outbreak of pneumonic influenza in New Zealand in 1918.