TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE ON A STEAMER.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 December 1918, Page 4

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE ON A STEAMER.

ROME, Dec 2. A Home steamer has arrived at Genoa from a South American port. Influenza started after leaving Monte Video, and out of a total of 176 of the crew, 150 died. IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, Dec 4. Deaths in quarantine continue. They now total 35. The Atua’s patients are convalescent. Two of the Manuka’s cases remain. Over 1000 persons are in quarantine. Dr. Arthur, M.L.A., publishes a letter concerning the outbreak on the Medic, alleging that although warned that influenza was rampant in Wellington, officers are ollowed ashore. The clay after leaving Wellington, three officers

were stricken, and the disease quickly spread throughout the ship, until 100 cases were down. MELBOURNE, Dec 4. The Superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital reports that during the past fortnight several typical pneumonia influenza cases have occurred, three of which died. Precautions to prevent the spread of the disease have been taken. TERRIBLE RAVAGES IN INDIA. BOMBAY, Dec 3.. ' ;i The ravages of influenza in India are terrible. Eight hundred are dyingdaily in Delhi. There have been 15,t 000 deaths in Bombay, and 250,000 in the Punjab. If the death-rate is proportionally heavy throughout India, it wil mean a death-rate of three million.