CHOLERA EPIDEMIC CLAIMS MANY VICTIMS IN PUNJAB
NEW DELHI, Oct. 11
It is officially reported that there a r e about 3000 cases of cholera and suspected cholera in refugee camps in East and West Punjab and in the Delhi area. Emphasising that conditions m the Punjab are all that are required for a large outbreak of cholera, the Delhi correspondent of The Times says that the official total of 3000 cases includes only cases in refugee and transit camps. There is no record ot the tens of thousands who have been stricken while moving along the roads to India and Pakistan— except the bodies left unbufied by the roadside.
Supplies of cholera vaccine are adequate, the correspondent says, but unless cholera control stations are established on all roads used by refugees, there is little hope of inoculating most of them. Wells and other sources of water supply have been contaminated by the recent floods, and sanitary arrangements are nonexistent.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1947, Page 6
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