INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
GROWING SEVERITY OP DISEASi: aj AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, Feb. 18. Twenty-nine deaths are reported including three in the country, making the total 372. Dr. Cumpton, reviewing the epidemic, states that it has been a form of fatal influenza which lias been gradually becoming more intense for months past in Australia, and may linger many mouths more. —Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALLEGED EXAGGERATION OP REPORTS. Christehurch, Feb. 17. The secretary of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers' Association to-day received the following cable message from Melbourne from the secretary of the Victorian Commercial Travellers' Association: "On behalf of this association I am directed to state that most exaggerated reports have evidently been circulated regarding the influenza outbreak in Victoria. Not a single ease exists among our four thousand members, who proceeding with business as usual. There is no evidence available that the epidemic, which is now steadily abating, is other than the pre-war type of influenza. Please communicate this to your members and to the daily press." [This hardly squares with the above cable from Melbourne.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1919, Page 2
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173INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1919, Page 2
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