INFLUENZA
INCREASING TENDENCY IN
AUSTRALIA
REPORTS FROM THE STATES.
(UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.!
(Received May 31, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day
After steadily decreasing to low limits, the influenza epidemic during the past few days has shown an increasing tendency. Yesterday deaths in the metropolitan area numbered five and new cases 72.
In South Australia a number of country districts have become infected, while in Adelaide there is a considerable number of new cases. Pew deaths have been reported. In Queensland the deaths so far are about ninety. The disease maintains a strong hold in Brisbane, and many new eases have been reported. Public services and business generally are suffering materially. The Royal Agricultural Show has been abandoned. -
In Victoria the epidemic maintains about the average of recent weeks. Of 27 deaths yesterday, 10 were in country areas.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1919, Page 5
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