INFLUENZA’S TOLL
“LIGHTNING COLD.” “Did the Vikings' suffer from influenza? We shall never know, archaeological specimens may inform us that men of the Stone Age practised trepanning,-but if the sea raiders ever suffered from ’flu it would leave no marks on the bony structures of their remains. At any rate, their descendants on both sides of the North Sea are fully acquainted with the scourge to, which Germany has attached the rather explicit title ‘Blitz-katarrh,’ or ‘lightning cold.’ The amount of time lost and human efficiency impaired by catarrhal affections defies precise calculations; a fully developed influenza epidemic, like the one of 1918-19, takes a big enough toll of human life in its liability ta lead on to the graver pulmonary complications, but at the best of times it has been reckoned that even the common cold costs this country fifty million pounds a year in sickness and loss of service.” —-“Manchester Guardian.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 3
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153INFLUENZA’S TOLL Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 3
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