INFLUENZA DEATHS.
EPIDEMIC IN BRITAIN. LONDON, Feb. IG. The spell of excessive cold which the British Isles have shared with the Continent considerably increased deaths from influenza. The Minister tor Health (Mr Walter Elliot), questioned in the House of Commons, gave the statistics lor eight English and Welsh towns for the six weeks ended Fcbruarv 3. He stated that as the temperatures at Kcw Observatory fell so deaths increased. For the week ended December 31 the highest temperature was 49 degrees and the lowest 20 degrees, and the deaths numbered 46; for the week ended January 6 the figures were: 43 degrees, 25 degrees, 94 deaths; lor the week ended January 13 the temperatures were 7)0 (highest), 24 (lowest), and deaths 158; for the week ended January 20 the temperatures were 3G and 17 and the deaths 291; for the week ended January 27 the temperatures were 39 and 19 and the deaths 41G; for the week ended February 3 the temperatures may lint be disclosed because of the censorship, and the deaths were 350.
Mr Elliot said that these figures of deaths were higher than normal deaths for the season and suggested a greater prevalence of disease rather than a greater severity. A peculiar feature of the epidemic is that patients on recovering frequently return to bed with mild German measles of 6hort duration.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 98, 25 March 1940, Page 7
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