TYPHOID IN, NAPLES
SERIOUS POSITION
(N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 13. The typhus epidemic in Naples is raging 50 times stronger than last October, says an announcement from United States Army Headquarters in the Middle East. Brigadier-General L. Fox, director of the United States Typhus Commission, who has just returned to Cairo from Italy, said: "Naples is seriously threatened. The menace can be expected to spread to Southern Italy. No cases are yet reported among the military personnel, but tho growin;} typhus rate is a potential menace to the Allied military effort." The authorities are daily treating over 30,000 Italians with anti-vermm powders. Medical flying squads are ready to go to outlying districts if the epidemic spreads.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 39, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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119TYPHOID IN, NAPLES Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 39, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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