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Show Flu Epidemic Sweeps Through Netherlands AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands Influenza in various parts of the Netherlands was reported Sun- day to have reached proportions of a "small epidemic." About 25 per cent of the inhabitants in-habitants of The Hague were reported re-ported by medical officials as suffering suf-fering from influenza and it was said to be widespread also in Amsterdam. Am-sterdam. Although the presalent type of flu was called comparatively mild, with patients usually recovering in four days to a week, some cases have led to pneumonia and businesses, bus-inesses, industries and schools have been interrupted. The Netherlands, better prepared to withstand the blockade and other war effects than her neighbors, neigh-bors, has made no special complaint com-plaint of a food shortage but a lack of vitamins in the wartime Dutch diet as well as changeable I weather was blamed. |