EPIDEMIC AT BROOME
FIVE DEATHS REPORTED MAY BE PNEUMONIC INFLUENZA. PERTH, June 15. Twenty per cent, of the white population (including the district medical officer) at Broome, and the surrounding districts are laid up with severe illness, which is believed to be pneumonic influenza. In some cases whole families are in bed. Five deaths have occurred. Forty per cent, of the blacks are suffer ing. Two hundred and thirty inhabitants of the Beagle Bay mission station are ill, including the fathers and the sisters at the convent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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87EPIDEMIC AT BROOME Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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