OVER A HUNDRED DEATHS
INFLUENZA IN PERTH PUBLIC BECOMING ALARMED. j OUTBREAK DUE TO- HEAT WAVE ! (United Pres? Association—By Electric Telegraph] Copyright.) Received noon to-day. PERTH, Dec. 9. Over a hundred people have died from influenza in Perth in the last few days. The outbreak is attributed to a heatwave. The temperature has averaged 97 degrees for five days, the highest being 101. On Monday 21 funerals were conducted at the Karrakatta Cemetery, which is the highest total for any day since the cemetery was opened 32 years ago, the previous record being 19 in 1919, when the influenza epidemic was ■ aging. Yesterday the record went to 29. These figures, are alarming the public.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 9 December 1931, Page 5
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