DRUG ADDICTION.
CAIRO'S "HUMAN REFUSE,"
LONDON, September 12.
Drug addiction has been responsible for the growth of the adult and juvenile vagrant population of the tovyii to dangerous dimensions, states the commandant of the Cairo police in a report. "The city possesses a slum population of many thousands, only describable, as human refuse," continues the report, as transmitted by the Alexandria correspondent of the "Times." "The thought of them pouring out during a cholera panic, or as an angry mob, presents no pleasant prospect.'- 5 This seems a veiled reference to the rioting on June"2l.: The commandant points out that the slum-dwellers live seven in a room, without sanitation. The. police are dispirited and weighed down by the difficulties. . t ¥ ~ . s, X ->■'=' y
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 7
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