SEVERE ILLNESS
BROOME INHABITANTS AFFECTED BELIEVED TO BE PNEUMONIC INFLUENZA. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 0.25 a.m) PERTH. June 15. Twenty per cent of the white population. including the district inedic.il officer at Broome and surrounding distri< ts. a're laid up with a severe illness. It is believed to he pneumonic iullueiiza. In some eases whole families are in bed. Five deaths have oceurred. Forty per cent u.‘ the Blacks are suffering.
Two hundred inhabitants of Beagle Bay. tiie Russian station, are ill. including the Fathers and the Sisters of of the Convent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1931, Page 5
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