The number of cases, the number of deaths, was said to be twenty, or forty, or a hundred and more, such reports being immediately followed by statements flatly denying the outbreak of an epidemic, or at least reducing it to a few quite isolated cases brought in from outside the city.
Gaixotasun edo heriotze-kasuen kopurua hogei, berrogei eta ehun eta gehiagoren artean gorabeheraka zebilen; baina berehalaxe, izurritearen aitzineratzeak deplauki gezurtatzen ez baziren, erabat isolaturiko kasuetara mugatzen ziren, kanpotik inportatuetara.