INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16463, 16 June 1919, Page 3

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

MUCH WORSE IN SYDNEY,

FOOTBALL; (BEAM AFFECTED,

By Telegraph— Press Assa.— Copyright.

(Received June 16, 11,20 a.m.)

SYDNEY, June 16. The influenza pandemic is steadily gaining in virulence. There were ; 47deaths and- 846 fresh cases during the week-end. All the public and emergency hospitals are now full. Messrs. Oakley and; Lcvein, managers of the New Zealand team, and three players, have contracted the disease, and the match against Orange en Wednesday next has been cancelled.