Influenza Epidemic

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 84, 14 January 1892, Page 2

Influenza Epidemic

♦ . • ! | PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London, January 11. The temperature of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale is lower, but his medical advisers state there is no cause for alarm. Most of the London hospitals are full with influenza patients. Three hundred and twenty-nine cases ! are reported on the warships at Malta. Seventy deaths from influenza occurred in Paris on Sunday. January 12. Sir Francis Knollys, Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, two of the Prince's Equerries, and several other members of his household, are prostrated by influenza. Lord and Lady Brooks and many of the aristocracy are suffering from influenza, and 300 men of the Grenadier Guards have been laid low by it. News from the Contineut states that in the hospitals in Munica yesterday 112 persons died of influenza. Half the population of Dunkirk are suffering from the malady, which is decreasing in severity in Berlin and Vienna. The stock of coffins in Copenhagen is exhausted. January 13. Ninety-fiye deaths from influenza were reported in London last week, compared with 37 for the previous week. The death rate of those attacked is 32 per 1000. It is reported that the pneumonia from which the Duke of Clarence and Avondale is suffering is increasing. The public display great anxiety owing to the weakly nature of his constitution, and the guarded character of the last medical bulletin. Rome, January 11. On Friday 84 deaths were reported in Rome from influenza, 90 in Milan, and 66 in Turin,