THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1037, 15 January 1892, Page 23

THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. SERIOUS CONDITION of the DUKE OF CLARENCE. ARISTOCRATIC SUFFERERS. MORTALITY IN MUNICH AND COPENHAGEN. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.)' " London, January 12. The Duke of Clarence’s illness pursues a somewhat severe course. An official bulletin announces that the sufferer s strength is well maintained, but his condition has not improved. Sir Francis Knollys, Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, Iwo of the Prince’s Equerries, and se* era! other members of his household, are prostrated by influenza. Lord and Lady Brooks and many of the aristocracy are suffering from influenza, and 300 men of the Grenadier Guards have been laid low by it. News from the Continent states that in the hospitals in Munich yesterday 112 persons died of influenza. Half the population of Dunkirk are suffering from the malady, which is decreasing in severity in Berlin and Vienna.

The stock of coffins in Copenhagen is exhausted. b Later.

A. bulletin issued this morning states there is no marked change in the condition of the Duke of Clarence, though he is somewhat better. London, January 13.

The medical bulletin issued yesterday respecting the health of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale were of a disquieting nature, due chiefly to his having passed a restless night. Ninety-five deaths from influenza were reported in London last week, compared with 37 the previous week. The death rate of those attacked is '32 per 1000. London, January 12.

It is reported tluiA the pneumonia fr >m which the Duke of Clarence and Avondale is suffering is increasing. The public display anxiety o wing to the weakly nature of his constitution, and the guarded character of the last medical bulletin.