INFLUENZA ON STEAMERS.
SICKNESS ON THE FERRY BOATS. SAILORS PAID OFF. Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Notwithstanding that the Director o! Health has reported that no death hat occurred on the ferry boats, the fact remains that on Friday, August 5, a fireman died in the Christchurch Hospital, and the certificate of death stated that he diet from influenza. A large number of sailors have beer paid off in Lyttelton during the last three weeks with medical certificates stating that they were suffernig from influenza. Yesterday an engineer of the Mararoa and firemen were taken off tho vessel at Wet lington, while this morning the second officer was confined to his room and was to be taken off also. All are suffering from high temperatures.
During last week an average of one fireman a day had been taken off the Marftrns suffering from influenza. The ferry boats seem to be. the worst, but other vessels are also partly affected.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 4
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159INFLUENZA ON STEAMERS. Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 4
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