PSITTACOSIS
OUTBREAK AMONG DEVIL ISLAND
CONVICTS
(United Press Aasociation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
PARIS, Ist April
Two hundred out of G 73 convicts sent to Devil Island in November were dead by March, according to a warder's letter to a relative, including the murderers Barataute and Mestorino. They were victims of psittacosis (parrot disease).
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 April 1930, Page 5
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52PSITTACOSIS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 April 1930, Page 5
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