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THE Minister of Health has had special inquiries made through the regional medical officers of the Ministry into the local prevalence of the influenza epidemic. It appears that generally there is at present an extension from south to north, but that the distribution is patchy. Prevailing medical opinion is that the present outbreak, though widespread and highly infectious, is for the most part mild, most of the deaths being among the elderly. In the week ending January 9, there were 768 deaths ascribed to influenza in 122 great towns, as compared with 325 for the previous week, and the number of notifications of primary and influenzal pneumonia increased from 1,513 to 2,321.
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The Influenza Epidemic. Nature 139, 190 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139190b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139190b0