INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
REPORTS FROM ENGLAND
On inquiry from the Health Department to-Say "The Post" -was informed that the weekly cablegrams from, the Now Zealand High Commissioner, based on information, supplied by the British Ministry of Health, do not make any reference to influenza.- The latest message received is dated London, 9th January. "It is not unusual," said Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, "to find recrudescences of influenza during the winter months; and. it is believed that the British public at the present time are experiencing an outbreak of influenza" which is comparable, say, to that which was experienced in New Zealand in the winter of 1931, when 221 deaths occurred, and in the winter of 1920, when 297 deaths occurred. Failing lack of official information, the cable messages appear, to point to the fact that this is merely a winter outbreak of influenza."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 9
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145INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 9
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