DANGER OF EPIDEMIC
Buenos Aires Flooding (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 15. Health experts are waging an intensive fight against epidemics in the wake of the worst floods the Buenos Aires area has known. The Government has put the death toll at 100, with 127,000 homeless. As a mammoth restoration programme was launched, ap appeal was broadcast to all people in the area undergoing treatment for suspected rabies not to discontinue the treatment because of the floods. "The alternative might be death,” the appeal said. As the flood waters receded and refugees began to return to the shanty town dwellings around Buenos Aires they were met with a “no-man’s land” strewn with debris from their battered homes. The refugees were warned of the possibility of a typhoid outbreak and were advised to boil all drinking water.
Discoverer Dies.— Professor Albert Hustin, whose discovery made blood banks possible and thus saved countless lives during World War I, has died aged 85.—Brussels, October 15.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31501, 16 October 1967, Page 13
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