The influenza appears to be a very different complaint in
different cases. In the form in which it generally appears to attack institutions, it is said to be a very sharp fever, generally involving delirium, though not lasting above forty-eight hours ; but in the more ordinary English cases, where indi- viduals are attacked, it is only a bad feverish cold, accom- panied by a considerable amount of pain in the limbs. The Continental form is severest at Vienna, where on Thursday its violence and the number of deaths was increasing, and where the death-rate was • reported to be from 40 to 50 per diem. In extent, however, it was on the decrease. In Paris, though still very severe, the number of deaths was declining. The deaths there from all causes were 461 on Monday, 389 on Tuesday, and 334 on Wednesday. But the epidemic is still raging in all parts of France and of German Austria, and seems much worse there than it is further north, in Prussia and Holland. Lord Salisbury has had an attack of the milder English type of influenza. from which he is, we are happy to say, recovering satisfactorily; and Count Taaffe has also been seized by the prevailing epidemic in its milder form.
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