INFLUENZA SCOURGE
, SEVERE EPIDEMIC IN EUROPE RESULT OF CHRISTMAS FESTIVITY? 'ALARMING FORM IN BELGIUM By Telegraph.—Presa Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Received January 6, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 5. The influenza epidemic is so drastic in Montpellier thnt bodies are being buried without coffins, the supply of xvhioli is inadequate. At Bordeaux the number of deaths averages 40 daily. # The whole town of Wiesenthal, in (south Baden, is crippled owing to the infection. . Medical authorities in Madrid declare that the outbreak is traceable to Christmas festivities .and the consequent kissing and handshaking. In Brussels the epidemic has assumed an alarming character. The disease .takes the form of seizures in the street, and the victims h.ave difficulty an breathing. It is practically impossible to obtain medical assistance. There are 600 hospital cases' in Geneva, where the authorities have turned the military barracks into an emergenev hospital. Half the staff of (the League of Nations Secretariat is stricken, and the reopening of the schools and the University has been postponed indefinitely.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12648, 7 January 1927, Page 7
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170INFLUENZA SCOURGE New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12648, 7 January 1927, Page 7
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