INFLUENZA.
SOME SCHOOLS CLOSED. The wave of influenza which is at present affecting the Dominion, though of a mild form, continues to spread, and in consequence a number of schools in the laranaki district have had to close their doors again, as in some instances scholars and members of the stall' are down with the infection. The Education Board's office was advised yesterday of several more schools which had had to close, amongst them being the Hawera school. Owing to the large number of pupils and members of the teaching start who are suffering from influenza, the chairman of the .Main and Technical Schools, Hawera, acting on medical advice, decided to close both schools for a week, commencing from yesterday. At the end of the week a further notification, as circumstances may require, will be made. The bulletin issued by the Health Department for the week ended February 23 showed that Patea, with 104 notifications for influenza, was second on the list for the whole of New Zealand, Dunedin being first with fIOO notifications. For the Hawera district there were 6a. In considering the figures for Hawera it should be remembered that there is in the Hawera hospital district a population of roughly 17,000.—Star. , • The Patea Press states that the influenza epidemic, which has been attacking the town and district during the past month, is now on the wane, the number of cases having steadily decreased during the pa3t few days. It has been decided to re-open the District High School on Wednesday next. A remarkable feature about the outbreak has been its mild nature, scarcely any of the eases this year being of a pneumonic nature, in marked contrast to the 1918 epidemic. Another astonishing feature is the fact that it is mostly Europeans who have been attacked, the natives praeticallv escaping free.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 March 1920, Page 4
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304INFLUENZA. Taranaki Daily News, 3 March 1920, Page 4
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