INFECTED BLANKETS.
LOCKING THE STABLE DOOR, ETC.
Piew Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Slay 21. (Received May 22, at 8.55 a.m.) The 'Daily Mail' alleges that quantities of infected blankets from South Africa went to Whitechapel. The Government sold some thousands which had been stolen by Kaffirs or captured in warfare. Eleven cases of enteric in the reformatory ship Cornwall, on the Thames, were traced to the use of these infected blankets. The warehouses have now been fumigated, but quantities of the blankets had already gone to the provinces. ( A HORRIBLE CONSIGNMENT. LONDON. May 21. (Received May 22, at 10.23 a.m.) The blankets seised in Whitechapel were drenched in blood and swarmed with typhoid bacilli. Fifteen thousand blankets had been sold in the provinces.
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Evening Star, Issue 11893, 22 May 1903, Page 6
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122INFECTED BLANKETS. Evening Star, Issue 11893, 22 May 1903, Page 6
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