’FLU EPIDEMIC IN ITALIAN CITIES
GO a.m.) ROME, Doc. 16. The health authorities estimated that 500,000 people were suffering from influenza in Milan, 400,000 in Rome, 100,000 in Florence and proportionate numbers in other smaller cities.
The Associated Press correspondent says that a special Government commission has been set up to deal with the epidemic. The schools will close three days early for the Christmas holidays. Theatres and other public places will restrict attendances to avoid overcrowding. Trams and buses will be disinfected and chronic hospital patients will be moved out of the big cities to make room for influenza sufferers.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 5
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