Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-03-27 | Page 1 | Half of Total Population Labrador Dies

Half of Total Population o of Labrador Dies O THEAL March 26 6 Fifty MONTREAL M per cent ecat of or the Inhabitants northern Labrador perished durin during the r from an epidemic of oC In Influenza influenza in- in smallpox and men measles according ac no- cording to dispatches to tho time Montreal Mon treal treni Star I sent h hy by mail mall to Battle Harbor and by wireless t tl to St. St J Johns N. N F. F Earlier reports ports had shown that an epidemic on 01 the time southern section see sec tin tion of or the coast t has cost coat the lives JI 0 of 0 2 25 per c cent nt o of the time natives but first reports from the northern section are arc contained in today's dispatches Thc They tell of or rort forty Newfoundlanders New New- C fou ml 1 a nd e re wintering v I ii t n g o on n the thc coast for Cor the purposes of or tra trade J having perished at Nil NaIn In in with fort forty o odd d Eskimos representing near neal the time whole population of or that set set- population of oC more lOro than two hundred Is entirely ex- ex terminated d At t Hebron ron died It is IE estimated d that only Inhabitants in inhabitants his In- habitants from froni ba bay to Nain are aro left alive the dispatch say but bUl the tho full tull extent o of tho ca calamity en- en lamity will sill Dot be known until the opening o of navigation in the summer summer- Medical 1 aid was