SPANISH INFLUENZA

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14894, 17 October 1918, Page 6

SPANISH INFLUENZA

THE SOUTH AFIiiCAN EPIDEMIC. STILL SPHEADISTIN THE COUNTRY. .(Received Oct. 16, 7.40 p.m.) " . Capetown, Oct. 15. -There, arc evident.-sigm*of an abatement of hv'luen^a here, but it is.sprenu- j ing rapidiy in the country cJlstricL-:. Johannesburg reports no abatement. Kimberley's de.-if.ii roll exceeds 3000. The Government has decided to close nil places of entertainment throughout th<» IJnion. i ' An official statement says that steamers arrived at C'ttpetovrn on September 12th with 43 cases on board. The passengers were isolated, and not till the first week in October did Capetown develop the epidemic in its present proportions. . The statement adds that no cases aro ?cnown anywhere of influenza so rapidly assuming -.such virulent clmraeixsristics.