INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
LONDON DOCTOR'S VIEW London, Dec. 2',i. A prominent medical authority, discussing the influenza epidemic, says that one of its most puzzling features ia the return ,of outbreaks with augrnen ted virulence, and the multiplicity of cases of so-called pneumonia where the infection has spread beyond the lungs to the blood, paralysing normal methods of defence Although the influenza bacillus is regularly found and sometimes the pneumonia germ, it is possible that another undiscovered organism is implicated , INSURANCE LOSSES. Capetown, Dec. 23. It is authoritatis'ely stated that the Spanish influenza epidemic in South Africa resulted in a financial lass to the insurance companies of £1,500,000. A leading manager states that the few week? ■i" the epidemic coat the companies considerably more than the whole war. The heaviest claims were paid out in the Cape Province and Orange River Colony.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1919, Page 3
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