IAFLUENZA EPIDEMIG.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1918, Page 2

IAFLUENZA EPIDEMIG.

AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.! COST OF EPIDEMIC. CAPETOWN, Oct. 28. Official statements of the deaths resulting from the epidemic in Cape Peninsular alone are 75,000 whereof twenty-five per cent, are European-. At Kimberley the death roll is now nearly five thousand. It is probable’ the tut' 1 mortality in the Union approximates twenty thousand. The epidemic- is everywhere rjbating, except in Rhodesia where it is at its [might. TERRIBLE MORTALITY. LONDON ,Oct. 29. The influenza epidemic is extending in its world-wide ravages. In addition to there being 20,000 deaths in South Africa, (including 5000 at Kimberley) prevalence of tbo disease is reported from India, Argentine, Scandinavia, Spain', North Africa, Germany,"Austria and England. There have been already 13,394 deaths in Bombay alone. In a week 1753 died in Vienna. The supply of coffins in Vienna has been exhausted. Some bodies have been kept .in ice for weeks there and then buried in paper sacks. No fewer than 58 victims were picked up in the London streets during Satur-, dav last. The East Ham Borough Council has closed the elementary schools. It has also forbidden the children, to attend cinema shows.