INFLUENZA
A WORLD SCOURGE. SIX MILLION DEATHS IN THREE MONTHS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrlghi LONDON, December 18. ‘The Times's’ medical correspondent believes that six million people died oj influenza and pneumonia during the last li weeks. The plague, therefore, was fivr times more deadly than the war. Novel since the Black Death had such a plagu( swept the world. India had lost 3,000,000. No medical authority was certain thai any conclusion had been reached yet. Possibly the organism was still undiscovered. The indications were that tht infection occurred by contact and no! through the air. The District Health Officer (Dr Paris] was this morning notified of only on( pneumonic case, and that from Southland. Dr Bowie’s hospital report to noon today showed 4 dangerously ill, 7 seriously ill, 31 moderately ill, and 7 convalescent Total, 49. There was one admission and one death in the institution from influ, enza.
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Evening Star, Issue 16923, 21 December 1918, Page 6
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154INFLUENZA Evening Star, Issue 16923, 21 December 1918, Page 6
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