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The disease was particularly severe in some families, the
infection being very virulent, and several deaths occurred in
the same families, who were treated in the Infirmary.
A large proportion of the cases, and more particularly the
fatal cases, appeared to have the disease as a virulent
Septicaemia with the lung signs predominant, and in these
cases the disease showed a strong resemblance to pneumonic
and septicaemic plague, of which I have seen a large number
of cases in British East Africa.
A curious coincidence was that no cases occurred in the
consumptive wards. Whether this was due to exclusion of
cases of influenza from these wards or, as has been suggested
in the medical paper, to the natural resistance of consumptives
to influenza, I am unable to state.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
UNSOUND FOOD.
The following were brought to the notice of the Department
found to be unfit for human food and destroyed as trade
refuse: —