EPIDEMIC IN TOKIO.
NUMEROUS TYPHUS CASES.
DEATH-ROLL NEARLY 400.
A. and N.Z.
TCTKIO, Mar. 19.
The city has been swept fry a typhus epidemic during the past 70 days. The number of cases reported is 1739, with 395 deaths.
The authorities, after investigation, learned that refugees living in barracks were the chief sufferers.
Physicians blame the exceptionally dry winter, the frequent whirlwinds and dust storms, and the shortage of watersprinklers, i
A thorough disinfection throughout the city is being planned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 9
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