MALARIA IN CEYLON
HALF A MILLION VICTIMS. [TIMES CABLES,] . (Received December 18, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. “The Times’ ” Colonibo correspondent. says: Half a million are suffering from the malaria scourge gripping Ceylon, the worst epidemic for 20 years. Many deaths occur daily, and the hospitals are overcrowded. Patients are huddled on the floors and corridors, yet there is ; a continuous procession of bullock carts carrying collapsed men. womeh and children thither. Even the small villages announce the deaths of thirty to seventy-five. .The churches and missionaries are making efforts to relieve the sufferings, but the. situation is too desperate for private effort. Also there is a general reluctance to contribute to the relief fund, owing to the niggardliness of the State Council, in which there is now a Cingalese majority, • fixing ■ the relief contribution at £7,500,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 7
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