STARTED IN CHINA
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
. SPREADING OVER EUROPE Times Cabin. LONDON, Tuesday. The Geneva correspondent of “The Times’* says the health section of the League of Nations has collated worldwide reports on the influenza epidemic. From these it appears to be thought that it is generally a mild form even wider In incidence in some European countries than in 1927. Cases in North Germany in the last four weeks were 50 per cent, higher. The disease is especially widespread in Scandinavia, where the schools in some towns have been closed owing to the illness of teachers. Reports from Denmark, Finland and Lithuania show that the epidemic is spreading there. The Netherlands, Hungary aaid Switzerland have largely escaped so far. Spain has experienced an epidemic of pneumonia. All countries show that most of the deaths have occurred among elderly sufferers. The death rate in Britain is below the five years’ average. The epidemic seems to have started in China in July, 1927, but there was an epidemic in the Pacific Islands almost simultaneously.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 581, 6 February 1929, Page 9
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172STARTED IN CHINA Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 581, 6 February 1929, Page 9
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