TWO DEATHS IN CHRISTCHURCH
OHRISTCHURCH, 7th Feb. Two middle-aged men died of pneumonic influenza in Ghristchurch Hospital. Each had been an inmate for less than a week, and both were in. a aerious condition when admitted. . To-day there were five cases of severe and .five of milder influenza in the hos--pital. - •;. 1-i■•■*< •-''' :<•;'■■■ ; ■■ ' A reporter who' approached Dr. W. Fox, medical superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital, to-day was informed that the cases being received at that institution were of the same type as those dealt with in the epidemic of November, 1918. There are, however, many_ grades of that type, and generally the disease is not so severe in its nature this time. . "
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1920, Page 8
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