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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14959, 6 January 1919, Page 3

A lady, writing to Canterbury from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, refers to the arrival of the influenza epidemic. She says many of her neighboiirs, and especially the Kaffirs, were quite appalled with the terrific news from Capetown and Kimßerley, where the i virulence of the disease was worst i among' "tho natives and men folk. I Women fared better, and children were ; exempted to a {large extent. The safest course was inoculation. Feeling feverish and headachy she called in the doctor, who inoculated her with No. 1 vaccine. Next day felt worse, but the illness passed away, thanks to having taken the vaccine in time, but she intended to have a second inoculation of stronger potency. Her husband had been twice inoculated, be- ; ing engaged in a public office, and constantly in contact with all kinds of people, and he escaped. Her children had also been, operated upon, and it was expected they would escape pneumonia. The disease spread rapidly at , the Cape before people could be treated, I and from seven to ten thousand deaths j were stated to have taken place.