Flu's Toll In Admiralty
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Islands
PNEUMONIC influenza swept through the Admiralty Islands (400 miles north-west of Rabaul) in August and the death-roll ran into hundreds of men, women and children, said Mr. R.
H. Tutty, SDA missionary of Manus, when he arrived in Sydney from TNG last month.
He and 'his wife, a trained n,urse, worked night and day to combat the epidemic, travelling around the group bv launch. They saved many lives but scores of natives died because they would not go for treatment. Natives would be stricken and develop temperatures: then they would bathe themselves in streams to temper their feverishness. Soon after wards they were dead.
By the time Mr. and Mrs. Tutty left for Australia the epidemic had almost died out.