INFLUENZA SCOURGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 7

INFLUENZA SCOURGE

"FIVE TIMES MORE DEADLY THAN . WAR"

ORGANISM MAY STILL BE UNDISCOVERED

By Telecraph-Pme AsMciaMon-Gopyrieht* (Rec. December 20, 11.45 p.m.) ' London, December IS. A "Times" medical correspondent believes that six million i*ople have died of infliicn'ai and pneumonia, durin? (lie last twelvo weeks Tho plague, therefore, WHS five times more deadly than tho war. Never since tho "Black Death"' had such a plag-ito swept.tho work!. India had lost threo millions. Ko medical authority ww certain that any conclusion hail been reached yet. Possibly the organism wns still .undiscovered and involved The indications were that infection occurred by contact, not through the air. --Eeuter (via America). INFLUENZAInThE ISLANDS hewy'MOßmTir .among fiji-' AMS AND INDIANS. Suva, December 20. . Suva is almost clean of tlm influenza epidemic. Pome of 'ho country districts are improving, but in others Hie disease is still virulent. The European deaths total about tiO. It i« impossible to estimato (lie Fijian and Indian mortality, which must be heavy.—Press Assn. THE SAMOAN DEATH ROLL. / Sydney, December 20. A wireless report states that there have been 4000 . deaths in the Samoan Group.—Press Assn. DEATH IN SYDNEY QUARANTINE CAMP. Sydney, December 20. There has been another death from influenza in quarantine, the victim being Miss Siiue, a native of Duhedin.— Press Assn.