’FLU IN ALASKA.
COUNTRYSIDE PARALYSED. 250 PATIENTS IN TENTS. DALTON POST (Alaska), July 22. All the nurses and physicians available through Alaska and Canadian Yukon territory are hurrying to Fort Yukon, v,’i.er e two-thirds of the people of the town and surrounding; mining camps are ill, suffering from influenza. Over 250 cases have overflowed from the hospital into tents. Bishop Rowe and two lied Cross nurses arrived from Fairbanks by’ aero, plane, taking two hours on the journey, which would have taken four days by steamer. So far there have been only a dozen deaths, but the entire countryside is paralysed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 August 1925, Page 5
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101’FLU IN ALASKA. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 August 1925, Page 5
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