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  2. PEACE CONFERENCE

    The British have conceded most important points, in America's plan for the League of Nations, namely the constitution of a central administrative ...

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  3. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

    The Acting Chief Health Officer reported late last night that as far as the Department of Health is concerned Tasmania is still free from pneumonic ...

    Article : 573 words
  4. QUARANTINE LAWS.

    If, as still seems probable, the influenza epidemic dies out without causing in Australia such a holocaust as occurred in South Africa, it will have ...

    Article : 1,217 words
  5. ATTACK NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS.

    Addressing the Board of Health to-day, the President (Dr. Robertson) informed members that he did not inticipate that the outbreak would be very ...

    Article : 242 words
  6. THOUSANDS OF PICTURE EMPLOYEES IDLE.

    The Federated Picture Showmen's Association in a statement made to-day estimates that between 5,000 and 6,000 employees have been thrown out of ...

    Article : 69 words
  7. SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    The chairman of the Hospital Board (Mr. W. G. Coombs), referring to the influenza epidemic to-day, said:—The situation continues to develop at the ...

    Article : 335 words
  8. THE INOCULATION DEPOT.

    The health authorities made available at Launceston to-day serum sufficient for 100 inoculations. Dr. J. A. Pardy was in attendance at the Albert-hall ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. LOSSES THROUGH THEATRE CLOSING.

    It is shown that the losses to employees in the picture, theatres through the theatres being closed is approximately £2,500 a week in Melbourne, and ...

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  10. ROTOMAHANA'S RETURN TO MELBOURNE.

    The steamer Rotomahana, having been ordered by wireless to return to Melbourne when well on her way to Tasmania, the passengers, numbering 110, ...

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  11. NEW SOUTH WALES

    According to the latest reports to night, six new cases of pneumonic-influenza have occurred in Sydney. Two who were under surveillance in their ...

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  12. VICTORIAN OUTBREAK

    Developments this morning convinced the Victorian health authorities that the influenza epidemic in Melbourne was more serious than they had believed the ...

    Article : 611 words
  13. WEST AUSTRALIA

    The Commissioner of Health has arranged to stop the Great Western express due to-morrow morning, and place the passengers in quarantine for seven ...

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  14. ACTION BY LEVEN COUNCIL.

    The Leven Council's activity respecting the prevalence of pneumonic influenza in Victoria and New South Wales, and its possible entry into Tasmania, ...

    Article : 249 words
  15. THE INOCULATION DEPOT.

    If there could have been anything more thoroughly disgraceful than the provisions made for inoculation in Hobart than those witnessed by a "Mercury" ...

    Article : 421 words
  16. QUEENSLAND

    So far Queensland has kept the influenza scourge at bay. Up to a late hour this afternoon no cases of suspicious illness had been reported to the Health ...

    Article : 145 words
  17. NORTHERN SHIPPING ARRANGEMENTS.

    The steamer Loongana left Melbourne at 5.30 p.m. to-day for Launceston, with mails and cargo, but no passengers. The vessel will not come beyond Rosevears. A ...

    Article : 269 words
  18. TRAINING OF CITIZEN FORCES SUSPENDED.

    All training of the citizen forces in Australia has been responded indefinitely. This decision was reached at a conference of military officials held at ...

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  19. THE FIJIAN OUTBREAK.

    The steamer Atua, which left Sydney op January 17 has arrived at Suva Fiji, says a cable message received by the Prime Minister's department to-day from the ...

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  20. GOVERNMENT ADVICE.

    Sir Arthur Newsholme, Medical Officer of the Local Government Board (England), issued a pamphlet asking for the co-operation of everyone in obtaining ...

    Article : 265 words
  21. AMERICAN STATISTICS.

    Interesting figures relating to the history of the disease in America are given in an official bulletin received by the Federal Quarantine Department. These ...

    Article : 317 words
  22. STEAMER BOMBALA HELD UP.

    The Howard Smith steamer Bombala was to have sailed for Melbourne last night, but was held up at the last moment owing to the demands of the crew. ...

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  23. HANDLING OF TROOPS.

    The influenza quarantine restrictions have complicated the handling of troops who arrive at Melbourne for States other than New South Wales, which is also ...

    Article : 171 words
  24. ISOLATION HOSPITAL IN THE NORTH

    The Mayor (Alderman G. Shields) and the chairman of the Health Committee (Alderman Stor[?]er) this afternoon visited the isolation hospital at ...

    Article : 265 words
  25. THE BRITISH MINISTRY.

    The Official Press Bureau states that the following new appointments have been made in the British Ministry: — Earl Lytton, Civil Lord of the ...

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  26. PRECAUTIONS AT ZEEHAN.

    On inquiry of the local health officer to-night it was ascertained that the permanent equipment of the Zeehan District Hospital was considered adequate ...

    Article : 75 words
  27. SYMPTOMS AND PRECAUTIONS.

    The following bulletin was issued by the Quarantine Department last month:— Quarantine measures against ...

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  28. RED CROSS ACTIVE.

    The Red Cross Society has put into operation a considerable portion of the elaborate arrangements that it made some months ago, in order to be ...

    Article : 258 words
  29. BURGLARIES IN ENGLAND.

    Insurance companies in Great Britain arts alarmed at the increase in the number of burglaries, being five, times the previous daily average. ...

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  30. FURTHER CASES REPORTED.

    Eight persons out of a staff of 180 employed in the Repatriation Department's office, Melbourne, have become infected with influenza. Orders have been issued ...

    Article : 125 words
  31. SYDNEY DOCTOR'S ADVICE.

    The Consultative Council of the Medical Profession, appointed at the suggestion of the Dircetor-General of Public Health in New South Wales, recently ...

    Article : 504 words
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