VIENNA'S BURIAL PROBLEM.
. OF TRAM*WAy STRIKE. (Keceived 3 p.m.) VIENNA, July 2. The results of the tramwaymen's strike, which lias lasted a week, are becoming unbearable. It has been tbe custom for six months when people died in almshouses and hospitals, for their relatives to place the bodies in paper hags and convey them to the cemeteries aboard special tramcars at night, which was the only economical transport. The suspension of this has reduced the relatives of tbe dead to despair, and constitutes a, menace to public health.— ('"Times.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 155, 3 July 1922, Page 7
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VIENNA'S BURIAL PROBLEM.
Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 155, 3 July 1922, Page 7
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