INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
VIRULENT IN ENGLAND MANY .VICTIMS SUCCUMB, COURT BUSINESS HAMPERED. SPREADS TO EUROPE. United Press Assn—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Jan. 21, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 20. The Influenza .epidemic Is unabated. There have been several Instances of husband and wife dying within a few hours and doctors are succumbing after overwork. Businesses are being carried on with skeleton staffs. Sohools and cinemas have been dosed In many towns. The latest sufferers Include Mr Arthur Henderson, Mr Lansbury, and the Lloyd George family. The Law Courts’ business was almost suspended In London yesterday owing to thd Illrtess of lawyers, witnesses, and offlolals. The epidemic has spread to the Continent. There have been many deaths In West Germany.
NEW ZEALAND STAFF AFFECTED. MRS MEYBRIGK SUCCUMBS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONON, Jan. 19. InAuenza has affected one-third of the members of the New Zealand Government staff in London. A distinguished invalid, suffering from an attack of InAuenza, is Sir Mark Sheldon, well-known Australian merchant. The death has occurred of. Mrs Kate Meybrlok, known as the "Night Club Queen," under which role she served several terms of Imprisonment for contravention of the licensing laws. She was a victim of the InAuenza epidemic.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18850, 21 January 1933, Page 5
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