AERIAL MENACE
SPREAD OF DISEASE DUTCH OFFICIAL’S DEATH EPIDEMIC AT BANGKOK Singapore, April 9. Tlie danger of 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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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12298, 12 April 1937, Page 3
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98AERIAL MENACE Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12298, 12 April 1937, Page 3
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