OVER 100 DEATHS
FROM INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. INTENSE HEAT WAVE AT PERTH. ( Australian Press Association! - (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) PERTH, December 9. Over one hundred people died from ■influenza in Perth’ during the last few days. The outbreak is attributed to • a heat wave, when the temperature averaged 99- degrees for five days. The highest was 101 degrees on Monday, Twenty-one funerals were conducted at the Ivarrakatta cemetery which is the highest total for any one day cemetery was opened thirty-two yJats ago. The previous record was nineteen in 1919, when the influenza epidemic wits raging. Yesterday the -record- went to twenty-one. These figures are alarming the public.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1931, Page 6
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