INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
FOOTING THE BILL IN SOUTH
AFRICA,
OFFER BY UNION GOVERNMENT.
Pieee Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
CAPETOWN, January 19. Speaking to a delegation from a conference of the local authorities of the Union, sitting at Capetown, to consider the question of the payment" of the expenditure upon the influenza epidemic, the Minister of the Interior said that though the mortality figures were not yet complete, fully 11,000 Europeans and 127,000 coloured people had died from tie disease. The Government would bear fonr-fifths of the expenditure.
The conference, however, decided to adhere to its original demand that the Government should bear the whole expenditure.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17531, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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