Dire Influenza Toll
BRITAIN’S DEATH TOTAL RISES 67,978 BLACK FIRST QUARTER (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service} Reed. 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Monday. The bitterly cold spell made the first quarter of 1929 the second worst in this century, according to the Reg-istrar-General’s deaths report. The death total was 204,293, being 67,978 more than in the corresponding quarter of 1928—a death rate of 21 a thousand, and the highest recorded in any first quarter in the century except the great influenza epidemic o£ 1919. Influenza was the immediate or the contributory cause of death in 23,763 cases. Infant mortality under one year was 111 per 1,000, the iive births being 14 per 1,000 above the average of the 10 preceding first quarters.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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121Dire Influenza Toll Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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