TYPHOID EPIDEMIC
FOUL WATER BLAMED,
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, November ■ 26,
The Lyons correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that a typhoid fever epidemic involving 3000 persons threatens to overwhelm the medical and sanitary authorities. Isolation hospitals arc packed. Already .there have been seven deaths. A judicial inquiry has opened. It is believed that the epidemic is due to contain* inatiou of the city's drinking water.
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Northern Advocate, 27 November 1928, Page 5
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69TYPHOID EPIDEMIC Northern Advocate, 27 November 1928, Page 5
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