EPIDEMIC OF FEVER
AUSTRALIA'S NORTH-WEST
WORST TYPE. YET KNOWN
SYDNEY, July 20.
Victims of the worst type of fever yet known ;in ithe far north-west, 14 white men and more than 200 aborigines are1 dead in an epidemic which has raged through the Kimberley district, according to a letter received at Sydney. The police telegraphed for medical help, and doctors from Wyndham and Derby arrived by aeroplane. The fever attacked some in a malarial form, and others in a dysentery form, deaths sometimes taking place in a few hours. The fever is now waning.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 18, 21 July 1934, Page 9
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94EPIDEMIC OF FEVER Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 18, 21 July 1934, Page 9
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