EPIDEMICS
GLOOMY WQRLD OUTLOOK. . Reuter’s Telegram. _ LONDON, February 2. The report of the Ministry for Health furnishes a grave warning, applicable te the world-wid® possibility of |wrtber epidemic® . similar iu those of 1918 and 1919, which were responsible for more deaths than the whole war. A number'pf the roost eminent roan state that the outlook for the. world in regard to future pestilences is gloomy, The report emphasises that influenza is a mystery disease. Despite all bacteriological tests and other data, medical men are •at a loss to define its cause. They are of the opinion that the con, ditmns over wide tracts of the world are fai ourabje to further epidemics for at least another generation.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10816, 4 February 1921, Page 9
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117EPIDEMICS New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10816, 4 February 1921, Page 9
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