FLORIDA DEATH-ROLL.
WOW PLACED AT 2000. " INFLUENZA AND TYPHOID; STILL PREVALENT’."-' (By Telegraph-Press Assn. -Copyright.) (Received Thia Day, 8.45 a.m.) ;; WASHINGTON, Sept. .24. Bed Cross officials engaged in relief work in Merida declare, that conditions in the Lake Okechobee regions surpass the horror of the World War. The wholesale, cremation of bodies is now taking place,, aud it has been discovered that the town of Pelican Bay and its ‘250 inhabitants were obliterated. The death-roll is now placed at 2000. Disease is reported to have been alC' most checked in the refugees’ camp, near Palm Beach, where 1500 homeless people are herded; but influenza and typhoid are said to be ravaging the outlying districts, particularly in the Everglades area, where thousands p£ destitute negroes .are, being inoculated and thereafter rushed to a separate refugee camp adjacent to the Palm Beach - camp. ■ . .... The estimated loss to commercial pro- .- petty along Palm Beach county is in excess of twenty nlillion_dollars.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1928, Page 5
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