ROTUMA ISLAND.
'Flu Epidemic Raging Since
December 4.
DEATHS AMOUNT TO 31.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)
(Received 12 noon.)
SUVA, this day.
A broncho-pneumonic influenza epidemic broke out on the island of Rotuma, 500 miles north of Fiji but under the Fiji Administration. The first case was noticed on December 4, after the arrival of the inter-island steamer Makatea.
With the exception of Dr. Carew, the Resident Commissioner, two Europeans and some 50 Fijians, the latter proving immune, everyone of the 2300 inhabitants, are affected and deaths have amounted to 31, equal to 1.3 of the population. The epidemic is now abating.
Practically the whole of the work of attending to the sick devolved on Dr. Carew, as the native medical practitioner was a sufferer also.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 7
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