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SICK ITALIAN LABOURERS. me Times” Cable.] (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. The Port Said correspondent of “The Times” says the hospital ship California traversed the Suez Canal on the way to Italy with 686 sick labourers, the largest shipment of sick men that has. passed through the Canal yet. The patients are described as completely dejected and worn out. Tuberculosis is reported to be rife among the Italian labourers in Eriteria, owing to their exposure to the low air pressure, lack of water, and bad food.
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Northern Advocate, 23 October 1935, Page 7
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