EPIDEMIC OF DYSENTERY.

Grey River Argus, 4 September 1917, Page 3

EPIDEMIC OF DYSENTERY.

GOOD MILK NOT_OBTAINABLE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rec. September 3, 10.5 a.m.) BERNE, September 2. The epidemic ol dysentery is general' in Germany and Austria. ;lt is attributed to malnutrition. Patients are unable to get good milk as the German r >^fii:e._ J is intercejgjj^m^ sifpJWii**!|Wy7!l l !riain4r ; rffß and j ' glycerine. The War Office even • in- 1 tercepts Swiss milk at the frontiers', I (hough Germany pleaded that . she must, be allowed to import from . Switzerland, otherwise ' babies and young children would have died. The Austro-German Government is seeking to allay pubhi- fears by announcing that new foods have been invented to replace milk.