Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-03-12 | Page 2 | Japanese 'Flu' Epidemic upon Wane, Belief

JAPANESE flU EPIDEMIC UP UPON IS WANt fUff TOKIO March Ird 1 13 U AP The I Th In- In epidemic which has hi struck Japan Jn th the the d. d death of thou thou- sands sand Including h the month oM month S-month oW Princess rna daughter of or th the emperor em en apparently la is de- de on tIn th the bails basl 1 of ot figures made mad by th the Metropolitan t police Death now new range rang round around fifty athey a day they including ud those thoe from front bronchitis bronchitis' bron bros and whiter which a are attributed to Influent f ot t or of the deaths death ar al' are among infant infants Official OWa police pollee figure place influenza deaths death from November J. J to March So 1 l Jilt Jet t at 1410 18 which which U le an Aa Inc Increase t of or 00 over DV the Ibe figure for tor lat last winter The hOIl home borne office dl disagree with wh the polite polio records dl stating that case cau of or fatalities h. h have been tn exaggerated but under th the Japanese y at the be JoI pollee receive original r death and ami other reports an ansi and fo consequently tb the tb vermicular new t rs Are to accept U tilt the police pollee lice fl figures ure In fact tAct the the new ft tr recently estimated d the Influenza cases case In to b b nearly a million although the police police po po- po- po lice placed the figures figure at al approximately trl Other parts of Japan nut of roko alo are arc from In- In The schools In to some om districts dis dla- art are reported to have n b. b been n closed The schools chool and theatres in Tokio continue In n operation Many foreigners l have INne taken to tu their beds bed with influenza but hut thus thu fir far nn nil fa fatalities In among among them have been reported