INFLUENZA VICTIMS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 9

INFLUENZA VICTIMS

Spread of Epidemic Over

Europe

CURIOUS SIDELIGHT

(By Telegraph.—Brees Assn.—Copyright.)

(Received Jan. 23, 9.55 p.m.)

London, Jan. 23.

The well-known surgeon, Sir Percy Sargent, is the latest victim to influenza, which is spreading over Europe. It is raging in Northern France and Brittany. „ , Football matches have been cancelled throughout Britain owing to the illness of players. Small shops are displaying notices, “Closed owing to influA curious sidelight is that Oxford undergraduates have escaped the epidemic, though most of the college servants are victims to it.

Sir Percy Sargent was born in 18(3, and graduated from St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. He served in the Great War as Medical Officer to Hie Middlesex Yeomanry, gaining the D.S.O. At the time of his death he was surgeon to bt. Thomas’s Hospital, and to the National Hospital, also hon. consultant surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions. He was awarded the C.M.G. in 1919 for his war work, and was granted a knighthood m 1928. He published a number of scientific works.