{"id":5484,"date":"2023-12-15T03:49:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2023-12-15T03:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:49:06","slug":"heavy-toll-in-perth-perth-december-15-the-recent-heat-wave-and-the-influenza-epidemic-have-increased-working-horses-collapsed-from-the-heat-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5484","title":{"rendered":"HEAVY TOLL IN PERTH. PERTH. December 15. The recent heat wave and the influenza epidemic have increased. Working horses collapsed from the heat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEAT WAVE. (1931, December 16).\u00a0<i>The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 &#8211; 1933)<\/i>, p. 3. Retrieved December 15, 2023, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/21764916?searchTerm=Record%20Heat%20december#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/21764916?searchTerm=Record%20Heat%20december#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">The recent\u00a0<span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1755\" data-y=\"4849\" data-w=\"70\" data-h=\"25\">heat<\/span>\u00a0wave and the influenza epidemic have increased the funerals at the Kattakatta cemetery since\u00a0<span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1619\" data-y=\"4936\" data-w=\"154\" data-h=\"24\">December<\/span>\u00a01 from a daily average of six to an average of 10, the\u00a0<span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1523\" data-y=\"4994\" data-w=\"96\" data-h=\"26\">record<\/span>\u00a0for the cemetery for one day having been broken during the height of the\u00a0<span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1642\" data-y=\"5052\" data-w=\"69\" data-h=\"24\">heat<\/span>\u00a0wave.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">Of 215 deaths for the five weeks to\u00a0<span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1815\" data-y=\"5080\" data-w=\"148\" data-h=\"25\">December<\/span>\u00a05, 30 were caused by influenza, 80 per cent, were<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">persons over 50 years, and 60 per cent, over 60 years. Young people escaped the influenza mortality.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">Working horses collapsed from the\u00a0<span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1975\" data-y=\"5221\" data-w=\"75\" data-h=\"25\">heat<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEAT WAVE. (1931, December 16).\u00a0The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 &#8211; 1933), p. 3. Retrieved December 15, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/21764916?searchTerm=Record%20Heat%20december# The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[861,536,21,1726,112,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}