INFLUENZA
5000 DEATHS IN CAPETOWN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn ) CAPETOWN. October 14. ft is officially estimated that the deaths in Capetown and chief suburbs up to Sunday totalled 50i!0. 75 per cent being coloured people and natives. PRECAUTIONS IN AUSTRALIA. United Press Association.) MELBOURNE, October 15. Passengers arriving from South Africa suffering from influenza in future will be quarantined. The Commonwealth is taking steps to produce a vaccine to check the disease. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Regarding the cable message ill Connection with the precautions against influenza in Australia, Hon. C. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, said probably Australia's action was being taken with a view to dealing with vessels arriving from Capetown, where the epidemic appeared to have taken a most violent form, particularly Kii.ee; the native population. In the or'tit o' vessels arriving in .Ye v Zealand iron Cape ports every care would be taken to protect the health of the people here.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13890, 16 October 1918, Page 2
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