INFLUENZA SCOURGE
LEEDS DIRELY SWEPT 625 DEATHS IN A WEEK (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Times Cable. LONDON, Thursday. Reporting upon the influenza epidemic at Leeds, the health officer of that city says that last week was the blackest in its history. The conditions were worse - than those of the worst week of the serious epidemic of 1918. The deaths totalled 625, the highest recorded for any one week, and equivalent to 68 per 1,000 of the population of Leeds. The most tragic aspect relates to infants under 12 months of age. Among these, the deaths totalled three to every ten. The health officer says he is certain that the actual position is worse than the figures indicate, because many cases of influenza-pneumonia are not reported to the department. Consumptive cases are also abnormal. The influenza cases reported for the present week indicate an even worse total, though the public of Leeds has long been pretty sure that the epidemic can be ranked with the worst which has occurred throughout the country. Leeds is the first centre to give the actual figures, however.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290301.2.95
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 9
Word Count
182INFLUENZA SCOURGE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in