THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
WORLD-WIDE OUTBREAK. FEARFUL RAVAGES REPORTED. (The Times.) Received October 22, 12.35 a.m. LONDON, October 21. World-wide messages tell of the fearful ravages of pneumonia-influenza, whole families being wiped out. In Morocco there are 70,000 cases; in Odessa business is almost at a stand., still; in the Argentine there has lieen a severe outbreak, and many death*; at Rerlin .300 a re dying daily; at. Barcelona the corpses are unburied, and districts l>eing depopulated in Spain. There is a widespread outbreak, accompanied by suflden deaths, closing of schools -rnd the choking of the hospitals in the cities of Groat Britain. (United Press Association.) Received October 23 10 ]•> a m MELBOURNE October 22. A steamer has arrived at Broome with an epidemic of influenza among th 0 passengers and crew, ther e l>eing many severe cases.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13895, 22 October 1918, Page 5
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