INFLUENZA
SITUATION GRAVE
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, Feb. 21
The influenza death roll in England has readied 124;.) last week, a great majority of the victims were aged over sixty. The present epidemic threatens to rank with the outbreaks of ISIS and 1922. Doctors and nurses are overwhelmed with work. The medical reseiirch councils investigations of the disease is limited by the shortage of funds. There arc serious incidences of attacks among judges, nine ut present being abed.
DEATHS IN THE ISLANDS
SUVA, Feb. 22
Rotuma Island. Fatima Island and Wallis Island have recently lost a number of lives out of their population of some hundreds from pneumonic influenza. These islands escaped the 1918 visitation, while other Pacific Islands which were swept fatally by the 1918 visitation have as yet suffered no deaths from this one.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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