MISCELLANEOUS.
The main reason why Japan can sell goods more cheaply than her European competitors is because the Japanese workman is content with wages amounting to about nineponco a day. Writing from Sydney on June 24th, a correspondent says: TTfe city is completely in the grip of the epidemic. The very streets have, lost their gaicly. The street crowds are a coughing, ! over-coated, blue-nosed, entirely miserable mass of humanity. Not, a family seems to have escaped ihe disease, f Ninety per cent of it is simply ’flu — high temperature. intense sickness, very bad cold, and great weakness and depression. In the other ten per cent [ of cases—and there seems nothing to I determine whom they shall be—the patients become promptly pneunianic. The death rate in the hospitals is 30 or lb a day, but over the whole city at least 100 deaths a day are occurring. The plague is taking old and young, rich and poor. Whole families are down with the epidemic, till too utterly sick and miserable to help themselves. Helpers are going from street to street, doing their best.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 16 July 1919, Page 4
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182MISCELLANEOUS. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 16 July 1919, Page 4
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