INFLUENZA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2315, 6 February 1892, Page 4

INFLUENZA.

London, Feb. 3. Five hundred and seven deaths occurred in London last week from influenza. The death rate is 41 per 1000. Vienna Feb. 3. There are sixty thousand cases of intestinal catarrh in Vienna. DEATH OF SIR MORREL MACKENZIE. London, Feb. 4. Sir Morrell Mackenzie, the eminent physician, died to-day of influenza. From Men of the Tine we take the following ; —“ Mackenzie, Morrell, M.D. (London), was born at Leytonstone, Essex, in 1837, and educated at the London Hospital Medical College, Paris and Vienna. He founded the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, 1863; and in the same year obtained the Jacksonian Prize from the Royal College of Surgeons for his essay on diseases of the larynx. He was soon afterwards elected assistant-physician to the London Hospital, becoming in due course full physician, and was appointed lecturer on diseases of the throat. He is a corresponding member of the Imperial Royal Society of Physicians of Vienna, and of the Medical Society of Prague, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Laryngological Association. Dr Mackenzie is the author of numerous publications on laryngological subjects, and in particular of a systematic treatise in two volumnes, on “ Diseases of the Throat and Nose,” which is acknowledged to be a standard work. It has been translated into French and German, and has a very large circulation both in this country and in America. Dr Mackenzie has also written monographs on diphtheria and hay fever, and he published an article on “ Specialism in Medicine ” in the June number of the Fortnightly Review (1885), which excited considerable attention.” Sir Morrell Mackenzie’s attendance on, and treatment of, the late Emperor of Germany, will be fresh in our readers’ minds. LABOUR. London, Feb. 2. The Bristol bootmakers’ strike has been referred to arbitration. Feb. 3. Two thousand more engineers have struck. The origin of the strike was a quarrel between the engineers and plumbers relative to a division of work. Five thousand engineers and men of allied trades at Newcastle have protested against the Ipck-out, but the employers remain unmoved. Feb. 4. A labor crisis has occurred in Lisbon and the bakers’ shops have been pillaged by mobs. Adelaide, Feb, 3. The strike at Moonta mines is ended. The men attribute their defeat to the miserable support received from the Miners Association. ;