SIX MILLION DEATHS.
INFLUENZA IN INDIA
In talking about the recent numbering of the Indian people, Mr F. IT. Brown unfolds a most astonishing story. First, Mr Brown says, there has never been such a census in the history of mankind; it is a suinultancous enumeration of one-fifth of the human race. Two million people are employed on the returns, and the papers deal with so great a variety of human beings that as many as 250 languages are written on them. Forty years ago there were 73 Christians in every 10,000 persons'; the figure is now more than double. The Hindus are decreasing in num-' bers and the Mohammedans increasing.’ About 161 males ill every 100 O„ can now read and write. But the most astonishing of all these figures are those which deal with the influenza epidemic in 19181919. That terrible scourge wiped out iro fewer than six million people, and thus the population of India stands at the unsuspected low figure of 319,000,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9723, 5 June 1924, Page 5
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