THE SPREAD OF DISEASE.
A LEGACY OF THE SOOTH
AFRICAN WAR.
INFEOTED BLANKETS SENT TO
LONDON.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph Copyright.
London, May 21.
The Daily Mail alleges that quantities of infected blankets from South Africa went to workhouses in White - chapel. The Government sold none ; thousands were stolen by Kaffirs or captured in warfare.
Eleven cases of enteric fever on the reformatory sMp Cornwall in the Thames liave been traced to the use o these infested blankets.
The warehouses have bean fumigated, but quantities of the blankets had already gone into the provinces.
Some of the blankets seized in "Whiteohapel were drenched with blocd and swarming with typhoid bacilli.
Fifteen thousand were sold in the
provinces.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 3
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