EPIDEMIC OF ILLNESS
OUTBREAK IN WEST AUSTRALIA.
FIVE FATAL CASES AT BBOOME.
By Takgraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Perth, June 15. Twenty per cent, of the white population, including the district medical officer, at Brooke and the surrounding districts are laid up with a severe illness, believed to be pneumonic influenza. Some families are all in bed. Five deaths have, occurred.
Forty per cent, of the blacks are suffering. Two hundred and thirty inhabitants of the Beagle Bay mission station are ill, including the fathers and sisters of the convent.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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