Asian ’Flu Hits
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Honiara
From a Honiara Correspondent A serious outbreak of “Asian flu” which has hit Honiara has affected at least 70 per cent, of the native population, and the streets of Honiara have been almost deserted. rRTY policemen are off duty and there is hardly any Honiara business which is not carrying on with a greatly depleted staff.
There has been one death.
Worst hit section of the town is the hospital. It has been left with only a skeleton staff, and a public announcement has been made that only urgent cases can be treated. Yet all beds are fully occupied and beds have had to be made up on the floors for patients.
The epidemic has not so seriously affected Europeans and Chinese although they have not escaped.
A flu epidemic had also gone through the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in July, spreading to a number of islands and affecting a big propor tion of public servants at head quarters at Tarawa.