Vienna is quite in a panic about the influenza, and
Paris is not much less alarmed. In the former place it is said that 10 per cent. of the population is down with it ; and at Munich and Bremen it is raging badly. At Paris, among the pupils of the Ladies' Institution of the Legion of Honour, 180 pupils out of 470 were ill with the disease on Tuesday last. On the Paris Bourse, a good number of the stockbrokers are absent ; and in almost all the banks the staff are in great difficulties from the number of patients on the sick-list. At Belgrade there had been 762 seizures in six days ; and at St. Petersburg the Czar and two of his Ministers are laid up with it at the same time ; and the King of Portugal is also suffering from it. It is said that 35 per cent. of the Russian troops stationed at Mery are seized with influenza. At Berlin, on the other hand, the epidemic is on the decline, and ap- parently it has been worst where, though the ordinary winter is exceedingly severe, the present winter has as yet been un- usually mild. We have treated the epidemic lightly in another column, but we must add here that, according to the latest reports, it is fatal in about 6 per cent. of the seizures. It has certainly reached England, the number of cases in Paddington, for instance, being considerable, and about four hundred cases in all having been reported in the West of London.
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