INFLUENZA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 7

INFLUENZA.

LONDON'S DEATH ROLL. ' '! 141 IN A WEEK. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS. ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Rcc. March 4j 9.29 p.m.) ; ; ,' London, March 4. There were 141 deaths' from influenza in London last week. A SERIOUS EPIDEMIC. : On January 22 a London paper stated The most serious epidomic of influenza which has ever been known in Liverpool is literally devastating the , business nouses' and public offices.: It is, estimated', that "at '.the presont moment thousauds of peoplo, are "down. The sickness, has especially attacked, in a virulent form, both,men and women- engaged in office work. Ofio local bank alone line for.ty men ill, and others are being brought in from district banks. ' The work; in some , departments of shipping and insurance offices has been almost brought to a standstill owing 'to the large numbers of the staffs attacked by 'the epidemic. Nearly .ono hundred policemen are on the sick list, and so numerous are the'cases among postmen and postal clerks that emergency men have been called in. Twenty-one deaths : directly attributed to influenza wero reported in London last week, against ten, thirteen, and, twenty-eight for the- preceding three, weeks. ,