1600 MIGRANTS REACH SYDNEY FROM EUROPE
Some Sick Babies On The Ship (Rec. 9.45). SYDNEY, Sept. 28. A migrant vessel, the Skaugum, arrived in Sydney to-day. Many children on her were reported to be ill, and city ambulances were mobilised, to take them to hospital. The Skaugum left Naples on September 1 1, with sixteen hundred displaced persons aboard. She was under medical examination on arrival in Sydney for almost live hours.
The children removed from the ship are suffering mainly from measles and gastro-enteritis. They wer e examined on the ship by a Commonwealth health officer and an International Refugee Organisation Medical Officer. Seventeen children were sent to the Prince Henry Hospital (Sydney’s infectious disease:: institution), and 37 were sent on a special migrant train to Bathurst rnigrant camp, 100 miles west of Sydney. Their carriage was sealed off from the rest of the train.
The migrants on the ship said that the incidence of sickness on the voyage was very high, and that the children suffered severely in the Red Sea, where a Ukrainian baby died.
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Grey River Argus, 29 September 1949, Page 4
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