THE PNEUMONIC PLAGUE
MORE DEADLY THAN THE WAR.
RIVALS THE BLACK PLAGUE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright., LONDON, December 18. (Received Dec. 20, at 11.45 p.m.) The Times medical correspondent beheves that six million people died of influenza and pneumonia during the last 12 weeks. The plague, therefore, was five times more deadly than the war. Never since the Black Death had such a plague swept the world. India had lost 3,000,000. No medical _ authority was certain that any conclusion had been reached yet. Possibly the organism was still undiscovered. The indications were that the infection occurred by contact and not through the air.—Reuter, via America..
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17504, 21 December 1918, Page 7
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