SPANISH GRIPPE
I. ■ 'I ■ 'WORLD-WIDE RAVAGES'OF PNEUMONIC j;. , ; INFLUENZA ■ . t'v ; (Eeo. October 22, 0.35 a.m.) i ' ■ ■ London, (Motor 21. i World-wide, messages tell of the fearful ravages of pneumonia influenza. jFamilies are being wiped out in Morocco; tthere are seventy thousand eases in ; Odessa; business is almost at a standistill in Argentine. There has been, a Severe outbreak and many deaths at ißerlin; three hundred people are dying idaily in Barcelona) corpses lie unburied, i'and whole districts have been depopulated in Spain. A widespread outbreak; [accompanied by sudden deaths and the (Closing of the sohools is choking the hos''pitals of the cities in Britain—"The |Times." ■""slowly SUBSIDING IN SOUTH | AFRICA. .. Cape Town, October 19. j'The influenza epidemic is slowly dying .out, though there are still many serious icases. Reports from the country indicate that the epidemic is following the ;same course as it did in Cape Town..At I first the outbreak is raild, but then it :60on takes virulent pneumonic ( -features. —Aus.-N.Z. CablejAssn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 23, 22 October 1918, Page 6
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163SPANISH GRIPPE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 23, 22 October 1918, Page 6
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