’FLU EPIDEMIC
DEATHS IN ENGLAND HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY. LAST WEEK’S STATISTICS. (United PreSfe Association—By Cable— Copyright.: (Australian Press Assn.-United Service.] London, Feb. 27. The epidemic last week is the blackest in the city’s history, reports the I-eeds health officer in supplying influenza statistics. It was worse than the worst week of the serious epidemic of 1918. Deaths totalled 625. This is the worst recorded and is equivalent to 68 per thousand. The most tragic aspect relates to infants under twelve months, among whom deaths were three to every ten. The Health Department is certain that the actual position is worse than the figures indicate, because many cases of influenza and pneumonia are not reported to the department.
Consumption oases, also abnormal influenza cases, reported for the present week indicate an even worse total, though the public has long been prettv sure that the epidemic can be ranked with the worst which has occurred throughout the country, Leeds is the first centre to give actual figures, however.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 6
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