INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
WORLD-WIDE RAVAGES. ■* Received Oct. 29, 7.30 p.m. London, Oct. 28. The influenza epidemic is now worldwide. India, South Africa, The Argentine and Scandinavia report its prevalence. There were 13,394 deaths in Bombay alone, while 1753 died in a week in Vienna. The supply of coffins in Vienna is exhausted. Some bodies were kept in ice for weeks, and then buried in paper sacks. Fifty-eight cases were picked up in the London streets on Saturday and Sunday last. Some of the councils have closed elementary schools and forbidden children to attend.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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96INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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