TYPHOID AFTER FLOODS.
I OUTBREAK AT HANOVER. LONDON, October 22. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that a serious typhoid epidemic has been raging in Hanover, and energetic steps are being taken to check the disease. Up to the present over 1000 cases have occurred, and every hour motor cars of the local fire brigade are requisitioned by the ambulance service to bring fresh cases to the hospitals. To meet the extraordinary demand for beds a large elementary school on the east side of the town is being converted into a typhoid barracks. Owing to lack of accommodation at the hospitals many patients have to be treated at their own homes.
Practically all the cases come from the same part of the town, and the doctors trace the origin of the epidemic to the Ricklingen waterworks. The whole district round Ricklingen has in the last six months suffered greatly from floods, and both wells and waterworks have become infected owing to the defective drainage of this thickly-populated neighbourhood.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 258, 30 October 1926, Page 9
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