AERIAL MENACE.
SPREAD OF DISEASE.
I Dutch Official's Death From i•, Cholera in Five Hours.
j EPIDEMIC AT BANGKOK.
j United Press Association.—Copyright. ! (Received 10.30 a.m.) SINGAPORE, April 9. The dangcijof the spread of disease by air was evidenced when Van Haselen, a high Dutch Airways official, died from cholera near Singapore. Van Haselen came by air from The Hague and stayed three days at Bangkok, where an epidemic was abating, but at one time hundreds were dying weekly. The Dutchman travelled by 'plane to Penang, where he joined a boat and became ill. He was dead in five hours. Ship and aeroplane passengers have been quarantined at Singapore and Java respectively.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 84, 10 April 1937, Page 9
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