MASS HYSTERIA
SYDNEY INCIDENT
GIRL FACTORY WORKERS
SYDNEY,' November 22. During extreme heat today an outbreak of mass hysteria occurred among 80 factory girls in a city underwear establishment. ' The girls were working quietly when suddenly, one uttered a shrill scream, and within a minute most of the others were fainting, screaming* or rushing about in terror. The situation grew worse when a man wearing an improvised mask, searching for a dead rat in the ceiling, poked his head through a manhole preparatory to descending. Ambulance workers arrived and applied first aid to at least 20 girls who had collapsed in various parts of the room. ■ The proprietor of- the factory described the affair as the strangest of his experience. The girls became panicstricken for no accountable reason. He closed the factory for three hours, and ordered all the girls into the fresh air.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 11
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