CHOLERA DANGER
POSSIBILITIES IN AIR MAIL. j (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 21. The air mail has brought the danger of cholera much nearer Australia, Professor Bakhvin warned the health and defence authorities yesterday. The link in the East makes a cholera epidemic a distinct possibility unless precautions are taken, he said. ■ . Professor Baldwin, who is lecturer in Tropical Medicine at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, was lecturing 'on “Tropical Hygiene” at the University. ./ Australia’s isolation made it lone of the feAv countries in the world in which endemic or epidemic cholera was not rife. But now Singapore was only two days away by air while Java and other islands of the East Indies group were closer. The home of cholera is India ! but it spreads down through Burma to the Dutch East Indies I)r. Baldwin emphasised that the disease cannot travel through air.; it must be transmitted by personal contact, and the disease spreads no further than a person travels. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1936, Page 5
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