SOUTH AFRICA.
THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC; Capetown, Oct. > lft The town is almost a dead city, anfe business is practically at a standstill. Many shops iuy:e been closed, and the train and tram services reduced by 60 per cent. There were 250 burials yesterday. The epidemio is believed no*' to have reached its height. In Kimberley business is suspended except in foodstuffs and chemists. Many of the Transvaal collieries We closed. Durban icpovts approximately Bdoo cases in the city, but no fatalities we" recorded.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received Oct. 11, 745 pm. Capetown, Oct, 10. m Tliere were 40G deaths in Kimberley yesterday, including 50 Europeans. It, is estimated that 31300 of all races have' succumbed there in nine days, two-thirds of them being from the mine compounds. The epidemic continues to spread Sn the towns of the Cape province.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1918, Page 5
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138SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1918, Page 5
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