Severe Influenza
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Epidemic.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, Oct. 24.
AT Mailu—an island on the south coast of Papua—an epidemic of exceed ingly severe influenza has broken out, in a virulent form.
The Mission staff of the L.M.S. is making a splendid effort to fight the disease, but the natives are taking it badly. They show little resistance to any imported germs of this kind.
The Island of Mailu suffered from an epidemic of dysentery a few months ago, and the death rate in the district has been high.