INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

f t HEAVY MORTALITY IN JAPAN it OVER EIGHT MILLION CASES. to r . Received IS, 8.50 p.m. it Tokio, Feb. 10- ,], Influenza is levying heavily on all rauks. Over eight million cases are reported, and 55;0O0 deaths.—Time* Service. A SPIRITED CONTROVERSY. Received IS, 10 p.m. ,( - ' Sydney, Last Night. !t | Melbourne, Last Night. 1(1 Eleven deaths from influenza occurred ' s to-day. A spirited controversy has arisen over ie Doctor Cumpston's thesis that the pre--11 sent influenza epidemic is not the violent 1 and infective type which ravaged New 8 ' Zealand and other countries. Emine.it doctors, including the Superintendent of the Melbourne hospital, emphatically declare the disease is identical with the oversea type. All post mortenig show exactly the same syrnpjs toms as those contained in the New Zea- ,. land reports. I, There was one death from influenza ie to-day-j NOT ABATING IN ENGLAND. HEAVY DEATH ROLL. ■* Received 19, 140 a-m. London, Feb. 17. Influenza is not abating. There wcro 13S deaths in Edinburgh last week, 06 which 00 wore pneumonic. It is estimated the deaths in the last quarter of 1918 totalled 175,000, largely young adulU, involving an economic loss of £120.000,000 sterling. . Doctors increasingly believe that masks afford protection.—United Service.