BRITAIN HEAVIEST HIT.
EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA. (Received 10 a.m.) fSENKVA, February Iβ. Britain, with 4.000.000 cases around the New Year and a mortality of 19..) per 1000, suffered worst in the recent iflfluenza epidemic, according to the League of Nations' health statistics. 'tlerman towns were severely hit, but tlie. degree could not be compared with tlmt of 1918-19. In the rest of Europe the epidemic was relatively mild. TRAGEDY IN JAPAN. FATALITIES IN SNOWSTORM. (Received 10 a.m.) TOKYO, February Iβ. A great snowstorm in the Iwate prefecture resulted in 59 deaths and collapse of two schools and 20 houses. A train ran into 30 labourers clearing snow from a line in Hokkaido, killing five.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 7
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