FIRST QUARTER IN 1929
INFLUENZA IN BRITAIN WORST SINCE 1919 British Official Wireless. (Received 28th May, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 27th May. To the influenza epidemic which raged during the cold early weeks of this year is attributed the fact that, with one exception, the death-rate for the first quarter of 1029 is the highest recorded for any first quarter of the present century. The deaths registered numbered 204,293. This was 67,978 more than in the corresponding quarter of 1928. The death-rate was 21 per 1000, for 11.63 per thousand of which it is claimed that influenza was the immediate or contributory cause. This rate was only exceeded in the first quarter of 1919, when influenza was against responsible for a deathrate of 21.3 per 1000.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 122, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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125FIRST QUARTER IN 1929 Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 122, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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