AMERICAN FLOODS
A HEAVY DEATH ROLL HEALTH DEPARTMENT FIGHTING DISEASE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, March IS. (Received March 20, at 2.15 a.in.) News from Birmingham (Alabama) states that those known to be dead as a result of the flood number seventeen, while an official estimate places the dead in this State alone at 100. The national guard and the public health services arc battling with disease. Martial law continues to prevent spread of attempted looting. The homeless population in some centres will Ixj allowed to return to their wrecked homes to-morrow. Measles, pneumonia, and typhoid cases are reported, and the polluted water is greatly menacing the refugees. The Alabama waters are receding, but conditions in the Georgia and Florida areas arc still- acaite.
The property damage is now estimated at 20,000,000 dollars.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20129, 20 March 1929, Page 8
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