INFLUENZA SCOURGE
BRITISH SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, August 14. (Received August 15, at 1.15 a.m.) Tho ‘Daily Mail’ states that recent, investigations by Dr Mervyn Gordon at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital into influenza raises the hope that the scourge may soon he. successfully combated. Ho congrms tho American and Japanese view that tho organism is so minute that it cannot bo caught in the finest filter. , "The British Medical Research Council is so impressed by his investigations that it has decided to form a team of scientists to attack the problem of influenza. In 1918-19 influenza destroyed more lives than were sacrificed in tho whole of the war.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18047, 15 August 1922, Page 4
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112INFLUENZA SCOURGE Evening Star, Issue 18047, 15 August 1922, Page 4
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