HEALTH: Flu epidemic plays havoc with national life: Work and play upset by four-day illness (1937)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Light-hearted report on a flu epidemic causing worker absences at the office. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Britain in bed! ’Quick’ Flu Hits High and Low ENGLAND: INT * * Music overlay SOT * * Typist sneezes SOT / Window cleaner sneezes SOT / Telephonist sneezes SOT EXT Medicines displayed in chemist shop PAN customer out of door as sneezes / Close up of hospital sign / London double-decker bus away along street INT Patients in bed in hospital influenza ward EXT General view of office building INT People working at desks in busy office / Several office desks now empty (caused by abesences due to flu illness) / Lone office worker as pumps disinfectant spray into air then takes throat lozenge EXT General view of football pitch (stadium) / Office worker cheering / General view of racecourse / Bookie