INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
NOTED SURGEON DEAD. FOOTBALL M ATCHES CANCELLED DISEASE SPREADING OVER EUROPE. (U.P.A. by Elec. Teh Copyright) (Received Jan. 23, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. The noted surgeon, Sir Percy Sargent, is the latest victim in influenza, which is spreading over Europe and is raging in Northern France and Brittany. Football matches have been ca.noelipc! throughout Britain owing to ihe illness of players. Small shops are displaying notices “Closed owing to influenza.”
A curious sidelight is that Oxford undergraduates have escaped, although most of the college servants are victims.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11841, 24 January 1933, Page 5
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