TYPHUS IN GERMANY.
OCCUPIED AREAS EAST OF RHINE allies impose quarantine LONDON. April 10. “Typhus has been reported from 58 different places inside Germany, and the Chief Surgeons Office of the Allied Expeditionary Force has imposed a quarantine on the whole of the Reich beyond the Rhine to keep the disease from spreading to France and the Low Countries,” says an Associated Press correspondent on the Western Front. “The quarantine does not apply to Allied soldiers, none of whom has yet been reported stricken by the disease. “More than 500 cases have been found in the occupied territory, however, among German civilians, and especially among prisoners and forced labourers. None of these people will he permitted to cross to the west Panic of the Rhine without first being examined and treated with anti-vermin powder.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 154, 12 April 1945, Page 5
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