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EPIDEMIC IN UNITED STATES HEAVY MORTALITY (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Ihe Health Department has received advice that Los Angeles. California, is experiencing an epidemic of severe smallpox in which the mortality is !."> per cent. In oilier towns both of the ( tilted Stales and Canada. I lie deal n rale was as high as go per cent. A close watch is therefore being kepi on pas sengers from the Slates but as the incubation period is II days the position is eased by the fact that tindisease must, have developed before miv steamer can reach New Zealand.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 April 1926, Page 5
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99SMALLPOX Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 April 1926, Page 5
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