Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-13 | Page 3 | "La Grippe" in Singapore

"La Grippe" In Singapore. Influenza is spreading rapidly at Singapore. Singa-pore. The Straits Times says there is scarcely a Chinese house in the district of Teluk Ayer street where one or more tenot suffering from the disease. The Free Press stated that half of the Chinese Chi-nese coolies at Tanjong Pagar were down with the disease and there was some difficulty dif-ficulty in dispatching vessels, but this seems to have been an exaggeration, as in the following issue the pp?r says: "We are informed that although there is some sickness among the coolies at Tanjong Pagar, it does not prevail to the extent mentioned in our issue of yesterday, yes-terday, and the effective force available can overtake all the ordinary work of the jjlace, "