INFLUENZA TERROR IN PACIFIC ISLANDS
GROUPS THREATENED WITH DEPOPULATION FEARFUL DEATH ROLL AT PAPEETE By Tolegranh-PreßS Association- -Copyright (Bee. December 25,' 11.35 p.m.) San Francisco, December 24. According to an official on the steamer Moana, which has arrived here, depopulation through Spanish influenza threatens the Tahitian, Solomon, Gilbert, and other Island groups of the South Pacific. .During the week preceding the arrival of the Moana at. Papeete, over 600 out of a population of 3700 had died. Scores of people begged the captain for a passage to San Francisco to escape the malady. The epidemic was so serious that no labour was obtainable for the coconut plantations or harvesting the crops. The Governor is barricaded in his residence and is transacting business by telephone. Similar conditions in other islands are reported by trading vc-ssels.—Renter. THE CAMPAIGN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, December 21. The influenza cases in quarantine have been reduced to eight. The steamer Carawa has arrived with twenty-seven cases of influenza on board. Thero were four deaths on tho steamer.— Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 77, 26 December 1918, Page 5
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174INFLUENZA TERROR IN PACIFIC ISLANDS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 77, 26 December 1918, Page 5
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