A MYSTERIOUS EPIDEMIC.
SWEEPS CHICAGO. HIGH MORTALITY RATE. (Received 9.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 12.—A highly contagious disease, yet unidentified, has caused 201 deaths in nine days at Chicago. The Health Commissioner and corps of chemists and physicians are working intensively to determine the exact nature of the disease, which, unless taken in time, develops into influenza or pneumonia.
Twenty-seven persons died during the past 24 hours. Whole families have been stricken, and the disease is also prevalent in other centres of population. It is characterised by aching pains, a burning sensation of the eyes, prostration, high .temperature and nose bleeding.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1925, Page 5
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103A MYSTERIOUS EPIDEMIC. Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1925, Page 5
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