EGYPT MOVES TO CHECK CHOLERA SPREAD
(Rec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. The Egyptian Government, in an effort to halt the spread of cholera, has ordered the whole railway network to be stopped for four days, beginning at midnight tonight. The ban is. aimed at halting travel during Egypt’s protracted religious and bank holiday, called Qurban Bairam, which starts on October 24 and ends on October 27, says Reuter’s Cairo correspondent. All public gardens are also to be closed for that period and visits to cemeteries are being banned. Syria has. closed her Palestine frontier to all travellers from Egypt, whether inoculated or not. Greek Health Ministry planes sprayed Athens with D.D.T. as a piecaution against the spread of Egypt’s cholera. The port of Piraeus and suburbs are to be sprayed tomorrow. Hygiene squads are to inoculate the schoolchildren in both areas.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1947, Page 7
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